Toscanelli gets the job done

Toscanelli who is a full-brother to stable mate Wonderfully and former stable mate Mars, made it two from two for favourite backers at Limerick as he took the Irish Stallion Farms EBF 2yo Maiden.

The well-bred Aidan O’Brien trained colt finished sixth on his debut at Leopardstown earlier this month behind Convergence, and having opened at 4/5 on-course he went off the clear 8/13 favourite.

After breaking smartly the son of Galileo was settled in second by Seamie Heffernan. He made progress to lead over a furlong out and kept on well inside the final furlong when ridden to score comfortably by two and three parts of a length. Soebroto finished second, after attempting to make all, under Wayne Lordan for David Wachman at 9/2, while the Dermot Weld trained newcomer Innish Man (7/2) was a further three and three parts of a length back in third under Pat Smullen.

Seamie Heffernan said afterwards: "He improved a fair bit from his first run. He is very well bred and hopefully he’ll keep improving."

Additional reporting by Thomas Weekes