The Ballydoyle juvenile bandwagon had an unexpected hiccup at Leopardstown on Saturday when the $1 million yearling and 1 to 4 favourite Brahms was beaten by the 14 to 1 outsider Miss Bidder.

In contrast to Brahms, the winner cost, in the words of trainer Eddie Lynam, "a monkey, just 500 Guineas."

It looked as good a "monkey" as any trainer has spent recently when Miss Bidder was produced late by Declan McDonogh to cut down the flattering Brahms and get the verdict on the nod.

However, Lynam admitted that this was no planned attack on bringing a hint of manners to the seemingly all-dominant Aidan O'Brien two-year-old ranks.

"I honestly thought she might get third and then we would try and win a claimer or an auction race with her. I suppose we'll have to change plans now," Lynam said.

If that relative lack of ambition doesn't shout volumes about the value in shelving out $1 million for the runner up, O'Brien gave no signs of worry.

"Brahms was looking at the stands and was very green. Mick (Kinane) said he didn't come out of half speed but little apples will grow with time," he said.

If the Crescent Handicap is to be Polenka's last race, then she went out with some style after an all the way victory over Abaco and Sunless.

The Dublin-born apprentice Francis Ferris took the initiative on the Pat Hughes trained mare from the start and although Abaco looked to be cruising on the turn in, he couldn't quite make up the leeway.

Polenka is in foal to Mukaddamah and Hughes said that Saturday was probably her last race although there is a chance her swansong may be postponed to Galway.

Jim Bolger could bid to extend his remarkable sequence in the Golden Pages Handicap with Tiger Shark who was another to make all successfully, this time in the Telecom Handicap.

Bolger, jockey Kevin Manning and owner Henryk de Kwiatkowski later added the C&C Maiden with Individual who pounced late to beat Moonis by a head.