Aidan O'Brien's juveniles have really started to find their stride and Lord High Admiral won at the first time of asking in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden at Gowran Park.
The Galileo colt was backed in to 5-2, just behind stablemate Mark Twain in the betting, and bounced straight into the lead under Sean Levey.
He looked a sitting duck when challenged by Bobbyscot in the final furlong, but he wouldn't give in and was still a neck in front passing the post.< French Irish showed little on his only start in France last season, but left that well behind on his debut for Ger Lyons in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden for three-year-olds.
Sent off an unconsidered 25-1 shot, the Brahms gelding quickened smartly away from Karkari and April at the furlong-pole and registered a two-and-a-half-length victory in the hands of Keagan Latham.
Fran Berry produced Un Hinged (12-1) with a well-timed challenge to claim the spoils in the Gowran Park Golf Race Evening Handicap.
Having his first start of the season, John Coleman's veteran was waited with at the rear of the field, but sluiced through the pack and didn't have to have too much assistance from the saddle to beat Silver Tide by half a length, with Kaitlins Joy third.
Favourite-backers had cause for celebration when Long Wait (5-1), in first-time blinkers, took the Early Bird Green Fees At Gowran Park Handicap by half a length.
Very few got into the seven-furlong contest and Willie Supple had to wait until the last 100 yards before he overhauled long-time leader Proud Catch
Dermot Weld's Rare Ransom picked up a decent pot when proving too strong for 7-4 favourite Celtic Dane in the Gowran Park Rooftop Restaurant Race over a mile, while the Derrinstown Stud Apprentice Handicap fell to the Charlie Swan-trained, Conor O'Farrell-ridden Lady Songbird (10-1).
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