Melbourne Cup winners land Gowran opener

The Melbourne Cup and Irish Derby winning combination of owner Lloyd Williams and trainer Joseph O'Brien were on the mark in the opening Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden at Gowran today, as their Millswyn over-turned the Ballydoyle trained 4/11 favourite Il Paradiso

Williams and O'Brien combined to win the Australian show-piece last November with Rekindling while Latrobe landed the Irish Derby in June. Today's winner Millswyn is also by Latrobe's sire Camelot, whom trainer O'Brien himself rode to an agonising final-leg defeat in his 2012 British Triple Crown attempt.

Millswyn was today partnered to victory by apprentice jockey Shane Crosse, who moved the colt to lead over a furlong out and in the end the pair scored a three parts of a length win over Il Paradiso.

Trainer O'Brien was at the Newmarket Sales.

Quotes from Alan Magee