Maine Chance Farms’ exciting young stallion Point Lonsdale gained a handsome boost to his pedigree page when his three-parts brother Diego Velazquez won the G2 Romanised Minstrel Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday.

Dropping back to seven furlongs for the first time since making a winning debut over course and distance as a two-year-old, Diego Velazquez ran out a gutsy winner of the Group 2 Romanised Minstrel Stakes at the Curragh.

Aidan O’Brien‘s four-year-old son of Frankel, who was winning for the fifth time in his ten-start career, was forced to pull out all the stops under a strong front-running Ryan Moore ride to get the better of East Hampton by a neck.

Mutasarref finished a length and a half back in third.

“We’re delighted,” said O’Brien on Racing TV. “Obviously, up to now it has been a bit of a mess this year. We went to Leopardstown to give him a run for Ascot, and it went wrong, he got upset in the stalls and had to be withdrawn. Then because of that, I wasn’t confident enough to tell Ryan (Moore) to ride him forward in the Queen Anne and then they hacked for the first half of the race. It was over straight away after a couple of furlongs.”

On future plans, a step back up in trip looks on the cards for Diego Velazquez, with O’Brien pinpointing the Group 1 Sussex Stakes or Prix Jacques le Marois as possible targets.

Diego Velazquez was purchased by MV Magnier and White Birch Farm for 2.4million guineas from the Croom House Stud draft at the Tattersalls October Book 1 Yearling Sale where he was the second highest priced horse of the sale.

He is one of three multiple group winners produced by Acclamation’s dual stakes winning daughter Sweepstake. The latter is not only dam of Maine Chance’s exciting young prospect Point Lonsdale but also the latter’s champion full-brother Broome.

Point Lonsdale’s dual Derby winning sire Australia has been in excellent form in 2025. Not only is Australia the sire of this year’s dual Derby winner Lambourn and G1 Coronation Stakes winner Cercene, but his daughter Wemightakedlongway ran second in Saturday’s G1 Juddmonte Irish Oaks.

Point Lonsdale, a group winner at two, four and five, stands his first season at stud in 2025.