Dorset a second Group winner for Cleary at Leopardstown The Aidan O'Brien winning spree at Leopardstown continued in the Group 3 Killavullan Stakes as Dorset (13/8) made all under Jack Cleary to give the master of Ballydoyle a fifth straight winner on the card. Cleary had ridden the grey son of Wootton Bassett to victory in the Goffs Million at the Curragh on his previous start. Here, the winner raced keenly but was unpestered on the front end and quickened clear over a furlong out before holding stablemate, and market rival, Daytona by half a length. This completed a treble for Cleary after earlier wins on Amelia Earhart and Christmas Day who had won the other Group 3 on the card, the Eyrefield Stakes. Cleary, unable to claim his 5lb allowance in these stakes races, was registering his first two victories at Group level.  "He’s like an ATM machine for Jack, he’s the horse that keeps on giving!” said stable representative Chris Armstrong. “In fairness he’s given him two very good rides. Today he jumped and he was a bit keener but Jack got to keep a bit of a reserve on him. “He probably nicked it around the bend and Ronan (Whelan, on Daytona) couldn’t run him down. Ronan’s is a very nice horse. “He takes his racing very well. I would say that’s probably him for the year but you’d never know what Aidan might think, whether he might give him one more. “He’s going to be a lovely horse for next year. “He had a nice run the first day and then won his maiden. He went to England and over-raced and did a few things wrong. “It took a run or two to get him back on an even keel, and he did that obviously the last day in the ‘Million’. “Jack knows him very well and gave him another brilliant ride.” Additional reporting by Gary Carson
