A half-brother to recent juvenile Listed winner January, Platoon (11/4) made a winning debut under Jack Cleary in the BoyleSports Money Back Maiden.

The son of Galileo, for whom Yorkshire Oaks heroine Content was a 100th individual Group One winner earlier in the day, led from an early stage and kept pulling out a bit more to hold Touch The Sound by half a length. 

Aidan O'Brien was represented by Chris Armstrong who commented:- “He's a very straightforward horse and he's just taken time to come to hand. 

“He's been coming along nicely in the past couple of weeks and we felt this was a nice race to start him in. The trip is his absolute minimum. 

“Probably the best part of the race was the gallop out, Jack couldn't pull him up at the line. 

“He's a horse that will get further, he has a nice bit of class and he'll come on a lot physically. 

“There is a winners' race for him in September or we could look at something like the Listowel Stakes. The Diamond Stakes in Dundalk could also suit him over an extended ten furlongs. 

“He's a horse to look forward to for the back-end and I think he'll definitely make up into a stakes horse.”

Quotes from Gary Carson