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Karl Burke, Danny Tudhope and Clipper Logictics recorded their second success at the Irish Champions Festival with Fallen Angel showing a determined attitude to land the Moyglare Stud Stakes.
The same trio had already enjoyed victory at the Irish Champions Festival with Flight Plan's success in the Group 2 Dullingham Park Stakes at Leopardstown on Saturday and went one better a day later when their high-class two-year-old Fallen Angel claimed her first Group 1 prize.
Fallen Angel's sole defeat came when runner-up on soft ground at Sandown in July, but she soon returned to the winners' enclosure with an emphatic performance in the Sweet Solera at Newmarket last month.
The daughter of Too Darn Hot was always well-positioned under Danny Tudhope behind the unbeaten market leader Ylang Ylang and as the former weakened quickly after racing keenly, the 9/2 chance soon struck the front with a couple of furlongs to go.
The strong-travelling Vespertilio (4/1) loomed up large on her outside with a furlong to run but as the two set down to battle it out, it was Fallen Angel who pulled out more deep inside the final furlong to score by a length and a quarter at the line.
20/1 chance Ornellaia dead-heated for third with Porta Fortuna (17/2).
Winning rider Danny Tudhope said: "I got inside the three pole, and she was running away with me, she had loads left in the tank. I saw Billy [Lee] coming on the outside and I kicked on then. She's a lovely big filly and a lovely filly.
"She'll probably be best when she steps up to a mile. She really does and I've been saying it all along [has 1000 Guineas written all over her]."
An emotional yet ecstatic owner-breeder Steve Parkin said: "We bred her but lost the mother to colic. That's the last foal out of the mother and she is the spitting image of her mother. Emotional is an understatement.
"My daughter names all our horses and after the death of the dam, that's why she's called Fallen Angel. To win the Group 1 Moyglare Stakes is unbelievable."
Fallen Angel was quickly cut from 6/1 to 7/4 for the Fillies' Mile at Newmarket by Paddy Power with the same firm making her a 10/1 chance for the 2024 1000 Guineas. Ylang Ylang, who disappointed by failing to beat a rival home, was pushed out to 25/1 for the 2024 1000 Guineas having been the 7/1 ante-post favourite heading into the Curragh Group 1 contest.
