Picture: Expert Eye (Credit: Melanie Sauer)
Cape Breeders
Paardeberg Stud’s well performed stallion Expert Eye enjoyed Listed success in Ireland on Sunday.
His five-year-old daughter Beset showed her well being when she romped home to a facile success in the Listed Irish Stallion Farms EBF Devoy Stakes at Naas.
The Joseph O’Brien-trained mare had scored at the same level on her final start of last season at the Curragh and went to post an 11/4 shot in Sunday’s ten furlong contest.
Declan McDonogh was soon in front on the Expert Eye mare, who was pressed from before halfway by Iowa City
She was asked for an effort passing the two pole and asserted inside the final furlong as stablemate Lemsairbat ran on to take the runner-up spot, three lengths behind.
O’Brien said:- “She’s a tough filly. She finished off the year great last year and she’s picked up where she left off.
“She’ll probably go for a group race somewhere now. There is a race in Newbury over a mile-and-a-half. She’d have options in France. In Ireland the Munster Oaks in Cork is probably the obvious race for her if the ground was soft.”
Beset, who is out of the Galileo mare Beshayer, has won four of 14 starts with her wins including the 2025 Listed Guinness 0.0 Finale Stakes.
Her G1 Breeders’ Cup Mile winning sire Expert Eye was a superb racehorse and group/graded stakes winner at both two and three.
A son of the breed shaping sire Acclamation, Expert Eye is out of a winning Dansili half-sister to dual Classic winner Special Duty.
