< So You Think s huge reputation remains intact after the Aidan O'Brien-trained superstar came out best in a gripping duel with Snow Fairy to land the Red Mills Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown.< Roderic O'Connor led the way in the Group One contest and all looked to be going smoothly for Seamie Heffernan when he eased past his stablemate on the 1-4 favourite at the top of the straight.
But Frankie Dettori immediately unleashed Snow Fairy and Ed Dunlop's filly made So You Think battle all the way to the line, where there was just half a length in it.
The Dermot Weld-trained Emulous put up a superb performance to destroy her Group One rivals in the Coolmore Fusaichi Pegasus Matron Stakes.
Pat Smullen settled Khalid Abdullah's filly in rear and was still in last place as they turned into the straight, where he pulled her to the outside and asked for an effort.
The response was electrifying as Emulous powered past and surged three lengths clear of Together who had also attacked from the rear, with favourite Misty For Me in third.
The result made it a big-race double for the trainer and jockey after the success of the versatile Galileo's Choice (13-2) in the Group Three Kilternan Stakes.
Completing a hat-trick begun in a maiden hurdle at the Galway Festival, the five-year-old was pushed into the lead on the final bend and ran on stoutly to hold Look At Me by a length and a quarter.
Jessie Harrington's Silver Sycamore (8-1) led all the way under Shane Foley in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Maiden and ran on too strongly for favourite Oh So Lucy winning by three lengths.
John Oxx's Akeed Mofeed (11-4) stepped up on his eyecatching debut show when running away with the Irish Stallion Farms EBF (C & G) Maiden, leading before the final furlong under Johnny Murtagh and stretching five lengths clear.
Mark Johnston's Below Zero (4-1 favourite) led all the way in the www.thetote.com September Handicap, while John Murphy's in-form late-charging Goldplated (20-1) defied a 5lb penalty in the Irish Stallion Fa
