Jockey Ryan Moore offers surprising reaction over Royal Ascot favourite

Ryan Moore took the unusual step to lavish praise on a Royal Ascot favourite hailed the "fastest ever" work horse from Ballydoyle.

In excellent form at the Curragh with a four-timer, the top jockey was particularly impressed by emerging star Albert Einstein.

The 4-11 favourite lived up to the pre-race hype with a three-quarter length call in the Group Three GAIN Marble Hill Stakes.

And while the winning margin wasn't long, Moore said racing fans had seen just a fraction of his colt's ability when seeing off Power Blue.

"He's very exciting and very fast," said the rider, who scooped the day's feature Tattersalls 1,000 Guineas on fellow Aidan O'Brien-saddled market leader Lake Victoria.

"Obviously he's going to Ascot - if we let him jump out and make all he probably would have won by ten lengths today but we wanted to do something a bit different.

"You wouldn't want to be backing him at a short price but he's a very good horse."

William Hill cut Albert Einstein to 6-4 for the Coventry Stakes on June 17, after he picked up stylishly when manouevred by Moore.

O'Brien said his juvenile has really caught the eye on the gallops and is "big, hardy and strong" for his age at 540kg.

Racing TV presenter Gary O'Brien put Moore's unusual comments to the record-breaking trainer and asked if the young horse could be "truly exceptional."

"We always thought he was very special," he responded. "He's probably as fast a horse as we have ever seen work. He won lovely the first day. Wayne (Lordan) gave him a beautiful ride but he lit up a lot, even though he wasn't asked much, so we were worried today with the wind and how quick he was whether Ryan would be able to get a lead on him.

"He sat tight as long as he could, pulled him out and he said he just took a minute to engage because he hadn't been asked to work much off the bridle. Then he took off."

In the main event, the Tattersalls Irish 1,000 Guineas, Lake Victoria bounced back to her brilliant best.

In a Classic few horses were able to get into, she gave her backers a brief scare when she lacked room with two furlongs to run.

But the Group one-winning juvenile at six, seven and eight furlongs moved up a gear to squeeze past Hollie Doyle's mount Duty First.

From there on in, Moore had pace-setting outsider California Dreamer as a target and Lake Victoria picked her off easily by two-and-a-quarter lengths.

"She's one of those special ones - winning a Group One over six, seven and a mile as a two-year-old - and travelling the world so she is very unique," said O'Brien, who reported Lake Victoria had thrived since her English Guineas sixth in the build-up.

"The team were over the moon with her at home. We knew if everything went well she was going to make a massive leap and that's what she did."