Dorset Completes Ballydoyle Leopardstown Five-Timer In The Killavullan, Cleary Dominates
Updated: October 18, 2025 at 8:13 pm
By Tom Frary
While Team Ballydoyle missed out on the Group 1s at Ascot, Saturday's two-year-old card at Leopardstown well and truly belonged to it with Dorset (Wootton Bassett) making all in the G3 Killavullan Stakes to make it five wins from the first five races. Last seen winning the Goffs Million, the TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard was also completing a treble on the day for Jack Cleary as he registered a half-length success from stablemate Daytona (Wootton Bassett) as the 13-8 second favourite.
O'Brien failed to complete the clean sweep in the following maiden, but did collect the nursery as the final race on the card with River Ara under Cleary. The 22-year-old was completing a four-timer in the process on his birthday. “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,” Ballydoyle representative Chris Armstrong said of the winner, who had beaten Benvenuto Cellini in The Curragh's Barronstown Stud Maiden before off-the-board efforts in the Vintage and National Stakes.
“He had a nice run the first day and then won his maiden,” he added. “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. He's going to be a lovely horse for next year.”
Five races, FIVE winners for Aidan O'Brien at @LeopardstownRC as Dorset lands the Group Three Killavullan Stakes!
It's also a treble for Birthday boy Jack Cleary (22 today!) 🥳
Two races left, and O'Brien has the favourite for both contests 👀 pic.twitter.com/NmUfjQNiVC
— Racing TV (@RacingTV) October 18, 2025
Pedigree Notes
Dorset is currently the last known foal out of Snowflakes (Galileo), a full-sister to the -times Group 1-winning dual Guineas heroine Winter and to the Listed scorer and Kilboy Estate Stakes runner-up Lovelier. This is the family of the Gimcrack Stakes runner-up Ma Yoram (Dayjur), the Prix Morny winner Ancient Regime (Olden Times) and the Prix Maurice de Gheest-winning champion sprinter and sire Cricket Ball.