Porta Fortuna makes stylish return to action

Porta Fortuna returned to action with her usual reliability to win the Lanwades Stud Stakes at the Curragh.

Donnacha O’Brien’s filly has a superb CV and is a four-time Group winner who has been out of the top three only once in her career when unplaced in the Breeders’ Cup Mile last November.

Under Ryan Moore the 5-4 favourite took to the track for the first time this season and showed all of her class was still intact with a resolute Group Two success from Paddy Twomey’s One Look.

“It was a lovely starting point for her. She did things right, relaxed nicely and quickened up well,” said O’Brien.

“Ryan said she got a little bit idle in front. That’s beautiful and should set her up nicely for Ascot now.

“The Queen Anne seems likely, we have the option of that or the Duke of Cambridge, but I think she won so nicely and she’s training good and she’s happy and healthy. I think we have to look at the Queen Anne.”

When asked if the Breeders Cup would be the late-season target again, he added: “We’ll see what happens. It was a target last year and the year before so it seems like an obvious possibility at the end of the year.

“We’ll get through the rest of the year and see how she is and hatch a plan then.”

Porta Fortuna was cut to 6-1 from 8-1 for the Queen Anne with both Betfair and Coral.