'The Queen's Vase at Royal Ascot is the right race for him now' - unbeaten Carmers has royal appointment

From a Ballinrobe maiden to Listed success at Navan to Queen's Vase glory at Royal Ascot? 

The first two legs of an audacious treble have already been landed by Carmers and now trainer Paddy Twomey has his sights on the royal meeting for his unbeaten son of Wootton Bassett. 

The market told you all you needed to know before the feature Irish Stallion Farms EBF Yeats Stakes as Carmers was as big as 4-1, but that was quickly mopped up in the morning and he was supported all the way in to 6-4 favourite at the off.

Billy Lee kicked for home early in the home straight and Carmers kept on strongly to see off What's Your Game by three lengths. 

Twomey said: "He’s a horse that just does what he has to do, hence the headgear [blinkers]. He surprised me maybe just how well he won the first day. I was very happy with the way he did it in Ballinrobe, he won comfortably and Donagh [O’Connor] said he had to go down the back straight to pull him up. 

"He came home, licked the pot, rode out this week, didn’t care and I said to Billy, 'I’m going to put him in the Yeats and see what happens.' As the week went on, it became clear that he was ready to go."

What happened was that Carmers proved himself to be a leading Queen's Vase contender. 

Twomey added: "The Queen’s Vase at Royal Ascot is probably the right race for him now. He’s a stayer and he has enough experience to go to a race like that."

Ballydoyle bandwagon rolls on 

Aidan O'Brien may have had an odds-on shot beaten in the opening maiden, but he still won the race and ended up with a treble. 

Newcomer Gstaad, a Starspangledbanner colt who is a half-brother to Group 1 winner Vandeek, stayed on to beat 2-5 stablemate True Love. Chris Hayes was in the saddle for that success. 

Wayne Lordan was on Seattle, who showed a smart turn of foot to land the 5f maiden on his second start at 13-8, while punters went home happy thanks to 1-2 favourite Scandinavia in the finale, the 1m2f maiden. 

Seattle was introduced into Paddy Power's Commonwealth Cup market at 33-1. 

Sunrise shines at 22-1

There was a shock in the big premier handicap when Sunriseontheboyne made every yard under Wesley Joyce to score at 22-1. 

It was a big local success for Mick Mulvaney, who said "I thought Wesley was actually going a bit too fast! Everybody has been saying he wasn't staying, but we knew he stayed. I think we were done for a little bit of toe the last day, so decided we weren't going to let that happen today.

"He has been coming out well out of stalls, so the plan was to make the running, kick on two-and-a-half or three furlongs down and see if we could get home. It was nice to get it and is a lovely pot at our local track."

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