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Naas report: Causeway follows in hoofprints of Paddington
By Racing TV
Last Updated: Sun 22 Mar 2026
Causeway keeps on stoutly to prevail under Moore (Healy Racing)
Causeway showed strength at the finish to follow in the hoofprints of Paddington in the Irish Racing Writers Association Madrid Handicap at Naas.
The Wootton Bassett colt raced in midfield after a slow break, but began to make headway and laid down his challenge at the furlong marker as Ryan Moore kept the 13-8 favourite up to his work to hold off Controlled by a head.
The race was won by fellow Aidan O’Brien inmate Paddington in 2023 before he went on to win the Irish Guineas, St James’s Palace Stakes, Eclipse and Sussex Stakes in an incredible winning streak.
“He was tough and he learned a lot,” said O’Brien. “He took a run last year, he was a little bit lazy. He’ll obviously stay a lot further. Ryan was good on him.
“I think he’ll be very comfortable going a mile and could get further. He’s brave, he stuck his head out. He can go into a winners’ race now and we’ll go gentle with him and let him mature away.
“We’ll see how he progresses, there are other horses there for the Classics at the moment.”
Stablemate Accredited had earlier won the Space Traveller At Compas Stallions (C & G) Maiden with his strongest work at the finish.
The Siyouni colt was fourth on debut at Dundalk in October but had little trouble finding his way into the winner’s enclosure at the second time of asking.
The 13-8 shot was pushed along two furlongs out and began to make an impression approaching the final furlong before finishing strongly going away from the field to come home two-and-a-half lengths clear of favourite Sindagan.
O’Brien said: “We’re delighted with him. He had one run in Dundalk, Ronan (Whelan) rode him and said seven (furlongs) with an ease in the ground.
“Ryan said he’d have no problem getting a mile and no problem with better ground.
“He’ll have to go for a winners’ race now. We’ll go gentle with him, he’ll end up going up to a mile and then probably to stakes level. He’s a good looking horse and by Siyouni as well.”
O'Brien and Moore also teamed up to land the Fillies' Maiden with newcomer Drop Dead Gorgeous.
Beset lands Devoy Stakes
Beset made all to lead home a Joseph O’Brien one-two in the feature Irish Stallion Farms EBF Devoy Stakes.
Beset had the rail and battled it out with Iowa City as they entered the final two furlongs but the 11-4 five-year-old began to assert her authority on the race approaching the furlong make as she pulled clear.
Lemsairbat came out of the pack to pass Iowa City but was no match for her stablemate as she chased Beset home three lengths in arrears.
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 likes soft ground so we had planned to start early and it’s great to win a stakes race early in the year.
“She stays well and handles the ground and in conditions like that they are two helpful things.
“She’ll probably go for a group race somewhere now. There is a race in Newbury over a mile-and-a-half.
“We’d like to find a bit of juice in the ground in group company, wherever that might be.
“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.”
On runner-up Lemsairbat, he added: “It was probably a career best from her. She’ll probably come back to Gowran Park in a month. She likes a bit of juice in the ground too.”
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