Van Dyck impresses in Tyros

ANTHONY VAN DYCK followed-up his recent maiden win in Killarney with an impressive display in the Group 3 JRA Tyros Stakes in Leopardstown last night.

Ridden for Aidan O’brien by Ryan Moore, the 8/11 favourite powered clear in the final furlong to beat market rival Bold Approach by four and three-quarter lengths.

O’brien said: “We know he stays well, so you’d have to be happy with him doing that over seven furlongs.

“He’s obviously a smart colt and Ryan told the lads he’s a very nice horse. We have plenty of others to go a mile, so this fellow will probably go for the Futurity and the National Stakes.”

Earlier, Skitter Scatter proved a shock winner of the Group 3 Jockey Club Of Turkey Silver Flash Stakes, mastering 4/9 favourite Goddess early in the straight before the Ballydoyle filly dropped away tamely to finish last of the six runners.

The Scat Daddy filly, trained by Patrick Prendergast, was the second leg of a double for jockey Ronan Whelan.

Meanwhile, the Ger Lyons-trained Zander, third to Copa Verborium on his debut at the Curragh, is napped to land the six-runner Irish Stallion farms EBF 2-Y-0 Maiden in Down Royal tonight.

Zander’s stablecompanion Bailly might not cope with Eddie Lynam’s Glamorous Power in the opener.

And the featured Her Majesty’s Plate might go to Jim Bolger’s Twilight Payment, last seen when third to Flag Of Honour in the Curragh, might have the edge over Laws Of

Spin.

Elsewhere, O’brien yesterday pulled Grand Prix de Paris winner Kew Gardens out of the King George at Ascot tomorrow, due to a “dirty scope”, and will rely, instead, on Hydrangea (Ryan Moore) and the only three-year-old in the field of eight, Rostropovich (Seamus Heffernan).