It was business as usual at Gowran as Aidan O'Brien sent out another hugely promising juvenile winner from his powerful Ballydoyle team in the shape of Masterofthehorse
The full-brother to Classic heroine Alexandrova was expected to dismiss his rivals in the one-mile Hurry Harriet Listed Race 13th August At Gowran Park Maiden on the way to better things, and did so without breaking sweat.
Johnny Murtagh sent him on from the start and once the in-form jockey asked him to quicken in the straight, the 1-5 shot stretched away to score by four and a half lengths.
Dermot Weld has his team firing on all cylinders and put another one on the scoreboard when Award Ceremony (15-8) took the seven-furlong Gowran Park Race.
The three-year-old was stepping into better company after winning a Galway maiden in superb style, and he took it in his stride.
There were several in with a chance two furlongs out including Rock Moss but it was Award Ceremony who found most under Pat Smullen and he forged clear to win by three lengths from the favourite.
Tommy Stack introduced a decent youngster in Smart Coco (7-1), who won the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Maiden under Wayne Lordan.
The Smarty Jones filly took a while to get the hang of things in the straight but once she buckled down to the task, she swooped past Chorus Of Angels in the final 100 yards to score by two lengths.< Damasque (10-1) was always prominent under Martin Lane in the seven-furlong Thomastown Handicap and battled up the straight to hold the late surge of Fast Lightning by a head.
Paul Carberry returned from a 21-day absence aboard hotpot The Fist Of God in the Railway Bar 3-Y-O Maiden Hurdle at Roscommon but the first juvenile race of the season didn't go his way.
Garrett Cotter poached a big lead in the two-mile event and though his mount, the reserve Tellhimnow (16-1), was growing weary on the run-in, he had enough left to hold the 1-2 favourite by half a length.
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