Sea The Stars became the first horse since Nashwan in 1989 to achieve the English 2000 Guineas and Epsom Derby double here on Saturday.The Irish raider - giving trainer John Oxx his second Derby winner and rider Michael Kinane his third - beat home two of Aidan O'Brien's six runners in the shape of Fame And Glory with Masterofthehorse third.Sea The Stars (11/4), whose jockey turns 50 in a few weeks and keeps fit by running 8km a day, was always travelling smoothly behind the two O'Brien pacemake

Sea The Stars became the first horse since Nashwan in 1989 to achieve the English 2000 Guineas and Epsom Derby double here on Saturday.

The Irish raider - giving trainer John Oxx his second Derby winner and rider Michael Kinane his third - beat home two of Aidan O'Brien's six runners in the shape of Fame And Glory with Masterofthehorse third.

Sea The Stars (11/4), whose jockey turns 50 in a few weeks and keeps fit by running 8km a day, was always travelling smoothly behind the two O'Brien pacemakers Golden Sword and Age of Aquarius.

Kinane had to shake him up a little bit to get past the durable Golden Sword but once past him he had no worries and eased to a one-and-three-quarter length victory with a neck separating 9/4 favourite Fame And Glory under Seamus Heffernan and 16/1 shot Masterofthehorse ridden by Richard Hughes.

Oxx said that the son of Arc de Triomphe winner Urban Sea was a dream to train.

"He has a magnificent presence, he was a beautiful yearling," said Oxx, one of the shrewdest trainers in the business.

"He just had everything, and breaking him in he did everything right.

"He is so intelligent - right from the word go - he never let us down - all the way up - some horses look the business then let you down, this one went right to the top of the ladder."

Oxx, who previously won the Derby with Sinndar in 2000, said he was not at all concerned during the race.

"I was not very anxious during the race because it was going so well - Mick (Kinane) kept waiting to pick off the pacemaker - I knew he wouldn't stop, he was going so well."

Oxx said that trying to emulate Vincent O'Brien's feat of winning the triple crown as the legendary Irish handler who died on Monday did with Nijinsky in 1970 was beyond his star's capacities.

"He could go back to a mile and win any group one or over a mile-and-a-quarter," said Oxx.

"The St leger is probably a bridge too far, I am a believer in the triple crown, but I was worried going into the Derby so I would be very worried going into the Leger - we will talk about it of course but the International at York, and the Irish Derby we'll have to think about."