Duckadilly (5m Churchill - Alutiq, by Kodiac) landed her second stakes victory in her last three starts with a win in the Group 3 Brownstown Stakes at Leopardstown on Thursday. The Danny McLoughlin-trained mare had won her first stakes contest in the Listed Kooyonga Stakes at Navan last month and she returned to winning ways with a comfortable win under Scott McCullagh. Duckadilly settled behind the leaders before making headway on the outer with a furlong left to run. The five-year-old took up the lead and gamely fended off the challenge of Phenomenal Filly (by Sioux Nation) and Nancy J to win by half a length from the former. McLoughlin said: "She was my first winner as a licensed trainer and, as I said the last time, every year she has put me on the map. She won a rated race last year and, obviously she got her stakes win in a Listed race at the start of this year. "She’s really let down into herself this year and, as the saying goes with fillies when they get older, they do tend to improve. It's brilliant to get a Listed race at the start of the year and, to win a Group race, for value and everything else, even my training career it's brilliant. "I won't say it's unbelievable because it’s believable when you work for it. All the lads in the yard, they work very hard and it's just reward for all of them. It makes you get up every day when you love what you're doing. "Chris [Mullins] was the first man to have a horse with me. He had Bold Optimist at the start as well. He has supported me all the way. When I was starting off with three horses, he was with me. So, it's only rewarding that he’s the owner of my first Group winner. Long may it last. "She's in the Matron Stakes again. We learned how to ride her from how she ran in it last year. She deserves a crack at it again and that would be her main target." A third stakes winner of the week for Churchill following on from Radiant Beauty and Niente Scuse, Duckadilly was bred by Murcot Investments.