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Thou shalt not pass! Lordan's hot streak continues as Buckhurst caps fine double

Buckhurst and Wayne Lordan (white cap) fend off Sir Dragonet and Seamie Heffernan (blue) in the Group 3 Alleged Stakes
Buckhurst and Wayne Lordan (white cap) fend off Sir Dragonet and Seamie Heffernan (blue) in the Group 3 Alleged StakesCredit: Patrick McCann

Wayne Lordan continued his irresistible form from the previous evening when netting a quick double in the opening races on Saturday's card, in the process putting another dent in Sir Dragonet's reputation with an emphatic pillar-to-post victory on Buckhurst in the Alleged Stakes.

The lightweight rider had departed the first salvo of the Irish Derby festival with a treble, and he didn't see a single horse in either of the curtain-raising contests here when making full use of a tailwind that blew forcefully up the expansive Curragh straight.

With Buckhurst's Joseph O'Brien-trained stablemate Latrobe and Ken Condon's Trais Fluors withdrawn from the Alleged, Sir Dragonet was sent off at odds of 10-11 to atone for his contentious Royal Ascot defeat in the Wolferton.

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