Wilshire Boulevard gets off the mark

Wilshire Boulevard picked up compensation for last week’s near miss at Navan when winning decisively over the same course and distance tonight.

Last Saturday the son of Holy Roman Emperor just failed by a short head in a six furlong juvenile maiden won by Muscle Beach but there was no mistake this time.

Joseph O’Brien sent him after Candy Apples at the furlong pole and the pair quickly asserted to come home two lengths to the good and justify 4/7 favouritism. He was backed in from an opening show of 9/10.

“He was entitled to run a big race after the last day. He has loads of speed and will be better on better ground,” Joseph O’Brien commented afterwards on the two-year-old trained by his father Aidan.

Candy Apples was his market rival but she was noticeably weak at the track, drifting from 5/4 to 13//8.

Seven runners went to post and it was the unraced Fix It (16/1) who came in third, six lengths adrift of runner-up Candy Apples.