First Group Winner For Canford Cliffs in The Curragh's Railway

Saturday, Curragh, Ireland
GAIN RAILWAY S.-G2, €115,000, CUR, 6-27, 2yo, 6fT, 1:13.29, g/f.
1–#@PAINTED CLIFFS (IRE), 129, c, 2, by Canford Cliffs (Ire)
     1st Dam: Lulawin (GB), by Kyllachy (GB)
     2nd Dam: Obsessive, by Seeking the Gold
     3rd Dam: Secret Obsession, by Secretariat
(100,000gns Wlg '13 TATFOA; €200,000 Yrl '14 GOFORB). O-Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor & Derrick Smith; B-Lisieux Stud (IRE); T-Aidan O'Brien; J-Ryan Moore. €69,000. Lifetime Record: 3-2-0-0, €80,385. *First stakes winner for freshman sire (by Tagula {Ire}). Werk Nick Rating: F. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Rockaway Valley (Ire), 129, c, 2, Holy Roman Emperor (Ire)–Sharapova (Ire), by Elusive Quality. (70,000gns Wlg '13 TATFOA; 165,000gns Yrl '14 TATOCT). O-Mill House LLC; B-Matt Duffy & Newtown Stud (IRE); T-Jessica Harrington. €23,000.
3–Log Out Island (Ire), 129, c, 2, Dark Angel (Ire)–White Daffodil (Ire), by Footstepsinthesand (GB). (£95,000 Ylg '14 DNPRM). O-Godolphin; B-Yeomanstown Stud (IRE); T-Richard Hannon. €23,000.
Margins: 2 3/4, 1 1/4, 4 1/4. Odds: 7.00, 1.38, 1.63.
Also Ran: Argentero (GB). DNF. Saafarr (GB). Click for the Racing Post result, or the brisnet.com PPs. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.
After his first success in this with King of Kings (Ire) in 1997, Aidan O'Brien captured all bar two of the next 12 renewals but had been without a winner since 2009 as he loomed near Dr Vincent O'Brien's record of 14. Step forward the underestimated Painted Cliffs, who was fitted with blinkers after running eighth on debut in the course-and-distance maiden won by stable companion and subsequent G2 Coventry S. runner-up Air Force Blue (War Front) May 24. Off the mark again at this trip in a Leopardstown maiden June 18, the bay stepped up markedly to register an emphatic first group-race success for his first-season sire and add further weight to the opinion of the current crop of Ballydoyle juveniles. Tracking the free-running leader Log Out Island in second under Ryan Moore, he was sent ahead with a quarter mile remaining and stretched clear as the favorite Rockaway Valley made only labored progress past the tiring long-time leader. “We liked him before he ever ran, but he disappointed the first day and Joseph said he was very idle and babyish,” his trainer said. “We put the blinkers on him at Leopardstown to help him concentrate and I wasn't sure if it was just a bad race or that the blinkers worked. Ryan said he's a very nice horse. He likes him. Maybe we could leave the blinkers off him in future.”