A Fourth Vintage Crop For Kyprios

[Wandering Eyes]

While visually making heavy weather of bringing up a fourth renewal of Navan's Listed Bar One Racing Vintage Crop Stakes on Saturday, Ballydoyle's stayer supreme Kyprios (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) is back and at this point still in command of this sphere. Those unaccustomed to the way the 7-year-old operates would have found themselves underwhelmed at the way he took a relative age to subdue the drastically overmatched Poetic Sound (Ire) (Poet's Word {Ire}) in this 14-furlong warm-up for the season's Cup races, with even takers of the cramped 1-7 on offer faced with an anxious spell as Ryan Moore got to work.

In the event, despite the efforts of the Moyglare-bred jewel to disguise his superiority it was doomed to failure as his rival caved and he stretched on to win by two lengths from the closer Enfranchise (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}).

KYPRIOS!

The three-time Listed @BarOneRacing Vintage Crop Stakes winner @NavanRacecourse

A treble for team @Ballydoyle pic.twitter.com/rdHsykBbSo

— Racing TV (@RacingTV) April 26, 2025

Saturday, Navan, Ireland
BAR ONE RACING VINTAGE CROP STAKES-Listed, €52,500, Navan, 4-26, 4yo/up, 14fT, 3:15.17, sf.
1–KYPRIOS (IRE), 136, h, 7, Galileo (Ire)–Polished Gem (Ire) (2x Broodmare Of The Year-Ire), by Danehill. O-Moyglare, Magnier, Tabor, Smith & Westerberg; B-Moyglare Stud Farm Ltd (IRE); T-Aidan O'Brien; J-Ryan Moore. €31,500. Lifetime Record: MG1SW-Eng, Fr & Ire, 20-16-2-0, $3,301,607. *Full to Search For A Song (Ire), MG1SW-Ire, SW & GSP-Eng, G1SP-Fr, $1,086,486; Falcon Eight (Ire), GSW-Ire & SW-Eng, $409,006; Amma Grace (Ire), SW & GSP-Ire; and 1/2 to Free Eagle (Ire) (High Chaparral {Ire}), G1SW-Eng, GSW & G1SP-Ire, $926,416; Sapphire (Ire) (Medicean {GB}), MGSW & G1SP-Ire, GSW-Eng, $518,947; Custom Cut (Ire) (Notnowcato {GB}), MGSW-Eng & Ire, $951,925; and Valac (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}), GSW-Aus, $448,653.
2–Enfranchise (Ire), 126, m, 7, Invincible Spirit (Ire)–Saoirse Abu, by Mr. Greeley. (68,000gns 4yo '22 TATMA). O-Mrs A F Mee; B-Godolphin (IRE); T-Willie McCreery. €10,500.
3–Poetic Sound (Ire), 131, g, 4, Poet;s Word (Ire)–Ceoil An Aith (Ire), by Accordion (Ire). 1ST BLACK TYPE. O/B-John Keaney Keaney (IRE); T-Ger Lyons. €5,250.
Margins: 2, SHD, 2HF. Odds: 0.14, 9.00, 11.00.
Also Ran: Barnso (GB), Bay Of Sanibel (Ger), Sonnyboyliston (Ire). Scratched: Dawn Rising (Ire), Leinster (Ire).

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