Seamie Heffernan rode a first winner in the Moyglare Stud silks when conjuring up a great late rattle out of Kyprios to win the opening Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden at Galway.

Bred by Moyglare and owned by them with Mrs Magnier and Michael Tabor, the Galileo juvenile was making a winning debut and went off 9/4 second favourite.

He’s a brother to 2019 Irish St Leger heroine Search For A Song, and a half-brother to Free Eagle. The dam, Polished Gem has produced several other classy performers as well.

Given that breeding it was no great surprise to see the Ballydoyle chestnut come home powerfully to swamp Lifetime Legend and market-leader Flying Visit by three parts of a length and a neck.

It was a first success for the Aidan O’Brien/Moyglare combination as well.

“He’s not a ‘home-worker’ and he took a bit of stoking up there,” reported Heffernan.

“He’s a clear-winded type that’s probably a classy stayer.”

(EM)