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title: "Sun Goddess Lands Airlie Stud Stakes For Aidan O’Brien At Curragh"
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# Sun Goddess Lands Airlie Stud Stakes For Aidan O’Brien At Curragh

**Sun Goddess gave Aidan O’Brien and Ryan Moore a Group 2 Curragh win in Saturday’s Airlie Stud Stakes, bouncing back just eight days after her Royal Ascot defeat.**

[Sun Goddess makes amends for her Ascot defeat in the Airlie Stud Stakes | Full Race | Racing TV (embedded)](https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/SAkS2nYeo6A?feature=oembed)

The Sioux Nation filly was sent off the 2/7 favourite in the six-furlong contest on Irish Derby weekend and justified that position, holding Green Empress by three-quarters of a length. Beibhinn finished a further length and a half back in third, giving the O’Brien family a one-two-three in the juvenile fillies’ race.

The result matters because Sun Goddess had arrived at Royal Ascot as a major Albany Stakes player before finding Libertango too strong. This was a quick turnaround, but the Curragh performance restored her Pattern-race profile and put her back into the conversation for the deeper juvenile fillies’ targets later in the summer.

## Sun Goddess Back On Track After Ascot

O’Brien’s filly had already shown course-and-distance quality in maiden company, and the Airlie Stud Stakes confirmed she can handle Group company under pressure rather than simply dominate lesser opposition.

According to [The Irish Field’s Curragh report](https://www.theirishfield.ie/amp/racing/news/watch-beaten-royal-ascot-banker-bounces-back-with-curragh-group-2-win-921562), Sun Goddess struck in Group 2 company after the short gap between Royal Ascot and Pretty Polly Stakes day.

For Ballydoyle, it was another valuable two-year-old marker on a weekend dominated by Classic talk, and for Moore it was a composed salvage job on a filly whose reputation could easily have dipped after Ascot.