Pirateer battles strongly to land the nursery He beat the unlucky-in-running Treasure Beach (third in the Group 2 Juddmonte Royal Lodge Stakes at Ascot earlier in the day behind the most impressive Frankel) at Listowel but there was no disputing Pirateer's authority in the I.T.B.A. (South East Region) European Breeders Fund Nursery at Gowran today. Joseph O'Brien always had the top-weight on the gallop and he battled tenaciously to see off Defining Year by three parts of a length. Pirateer was giving Ballydoyle a very small measure of compensation for the nose defeat of Rip Van Winkle in the QEII at Ascot.
