WELL done to John O’Connor and his team at Ballylinch Stud in Co Kilkenny as they no doubt cheered on the four-year-old Circle Of Fire at the weekend.

The son of Almanzor (Wootton Bassett), making just his fourth start in Australia, won the Group 1 Sydney Cup at Randwick, a week after landing the Group 2 Chairman’s Quality Handicap at the same track. His dam, the Galileo (Sadler’s Wells) mare Fiery Sunset, was purchased in December 2022 by Ballylinch for 170,000gns from The Royal Studs.