Review LEOPARDSTOWN 7TH JUL

Siringas, an emphatic thirteen length winner of a Gowran Park maiden on her only start as a juvenile last August, made a winning return to action when recording a narrow success under Kevin Manning in the featured Brownstown Stakes at Leopardstown on Saturday.

The daughter of Barathea got a sweet run through on the rails after rounding the home turn but needed all of Manning's persistent urgings to forge past a gallant Saying Grace and Stephen Craine with dual 1,000 Guineas third-placed Toroca filling a similar berth for Seamus Heffernan.

Coolcullen trainer Jim Bolger was understandably delighted after this master training performance: 'She looked marvellous in February but then her coat went off and her form with it. Six weeks ago she began to pick up and gain a little weight. She has a marvellous temperament which helps.'

On future plans Bolger added, 'She gets the trip well and will maybe get 1m2f so we'll have a look at the Nassau Stakes at Goodwood and the Trusted Partner Stakes at the Curragh. If she did well in one of those she is entered in the Irish Champion Stakes.'

Niall McCullagh initiated a 35/1 brace sparked off aboard Owen Weldon's 8/1 shot Clanboyo in the Fernleigh Handicap before he scored on Peter Casey's Common Kris in the Strathmore Handicap over nine furlongs.

Light-weight Russian Comrade, trained by permit holder Billy Fitzpatrick, sprang a 14/1 surprise in the Woodley Handicap to scupper many a jackpot permutation but three investors did survive to collect a tidy dividend of #2,508.60 on Dermot Weld's newcomer First Breeze in the Monaloe Maiden.

Pat Smullen's charge, backed from 7/4 to 6/4, stuck to her task well inside the final furlong to defeat market rivals Moon Indigo and Marsh Harrier while the Offaly rider finished the session with another success for Dermot Weld when scoring on Naahil at the expense of warm order Alassio.