Automated is off the mark for Lyons

"I think that is our final runner of the year. He did that well. I'd say he wants further than that but it was a testing mile and a quarter in those conditions," said Shane Lyons after his brother Ger's Automated prevailed under Colin Keane in the Big Bad Bob Maiden at Dundalk.

The David Spratt-owned Automated (5/4) may have been shaded for market supremacy by Alamgiyr (evens and well-backed from earlier on) but there was no disputing which was best over the extended ten furlongs here.

On start number eighteen and his fourth for Lyons, the successful Authorized gelding was always to the fore before seeing off the aforementioned Alamgiyr (finished out his race well) by a length and a quarter.

"His future is probably jumping, and hopefully he'll go on and improve," added Shane Lyons.

(AM & EM)