CAPULET put the seal on a double for Aidan O’Brien and Seamie Heffernan when making a winning debut in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden for two-year-olds.

The Justify colt was always close to the pace and picked it up over a quarter of a mile from home.

He faced a stern challenge from Huxley who got on terms racing to the final furlong but kept on best in the final 150 yards to win by three-quarters of a length at 6/4.

Heffernan in the Mrs John Magnier, Michael Tabor and Derrick Smith silks, said: “He was the best horse in the race and he gave me a beautiful feel. A beautiful, big horse. Good temperament and kept responding for me, and the attitude is what you need.

“He is a stakes horse but he might be a little bit weak for this year, but we will see.”

Hispanic bounced back to form for O’Brien and Heffernan in the Bar One Racing Wishing Kevin O’Hare A Happy Retirement Mourne Handicap.

Made all

The No Nay Never three-year-old was backed from 11/1 to 15/2 for this six-furlong assignment and made all but had to withstand a fierce late challenge from the favourite Dandyville who just failed by a nose.

Heffernan said: “He has been a little bit disappointing, but maybe he is only coming to himself.

“It was the backend of last year when he came right and bolted up in a maiden on very different ground and we thought he was a stakes horse, and then he was fourth in a listed race.”

He won in the colours of Coolmore, Westerberg, and Zhang Yuesheng.

DYLAN Browne McMonagle was also at the double aboard Longbourn in the featured Irish Stallion Farms EBF ‘Red God’ Handicap and French Company in the Bar One Racing Bet €10 Get €50 Sign Up Offer Handicap.

Longbourn (10/1) won a final-furlong battle with Ceallach by a short-head in the €50,000 feature.

Trainer Ross O’Sullivan said: “He’s a horse that we have got great sport out of in the last couple of years, he brought us to Bahrain last year, and he is so consistent. It is great to have him and to win a big pot like that today is unbelievable.

“Amanda (Torrens, owner) is a great supporter of the yard and a great help.”

French Company (7/2 favourite) was produced down the outer, away from the field, by Browne McMonagle to strike for Jimmy and Annette Coogan.

The five-year-old gelding led over a furlong out and was kept up to his work to come in by a length and a quarter.

Trainer Coogan said: “He’s a right little horse, he’s after winning four. He has won three up here for us. He has won well and it was great.

“A good man on his back and that is his first ride for me, he is well able to horseback. Fair play to him.”

Willie McCreery’s newcomer Bella Colombia sprang a 25/1 surprise in the Irish EBF Auction Series Fillies Maiden.

The 92-rated Ashwiyaa was a warm order at 4/11 to make the breakthrough, however, she was outgunned inside the final furlong once Bella Colombia headed her.

Nathan Crosse’s mount stayed on well to see the favourite off by three-quarters of a length for the COR Racing Syndicate.

“She’s a lovely filly. I brought her up here a couple of weeks ago just to see if she would like the surface. I thought it was a nice opportunity to start her off until I saw Ashwiyaa in it and I was a bit worried,” McCreery said.

“She would be for sale. She would be an ideal one for America, I’d say, the way she settled.”

Winning move

John Murphy’s Signatory took a couple of lengths out of his rivals approaching the final furlong of the Bar One Racing Price Boosts All Channels Apprentice Maiden and it was the winning of the race.

Conor Stone-Walsh steered him home by a length and three-quarters at 5/2 for the Hewins Hoare Partnership and said: “He was good, he had a good look around so there should be plenty of improvement left.

“I suppose I was in front plenty early as well and he is still raw, he has only had two runs. He is a big, strong colt so hopefully he can improve plenty.”

PUNK Poet was given a chance by the handicapper and certainly grabbed it in the first division of the Bar One Racing Guaranteed Multiples All Shops Handicap.

The market noticed that he had dropped down to a mark of 64 and he was backed from 7/1 to 4/1 favourite.

Ben Coen had him good and forward and the pair had the race in the bag once they took a definite lead in the final quarter of a mile. They stretched away by three and a-half lengths in the final furlong.

Trainer Eddie Lynam said: “He got the job done, but what you would worry about now is that instead of going up a bit, he could go up a lot. Handicappers go on distances.

“It is nice to get his head in front and Aileen (Lynam, owner) loves the old horse.”

Co-favourite

The second division of the Bar One Racing Guaranteed Multiples All Shops Handicap went the way of 5/1 co-favourite Skontonovski who brought up plenty of bets.

He made the best way home from the furlong pole for Ronan Whelan to score by a length and a-quarter for owner Jim Fairhurst. Ado McGuinness said: “He has been running solid away there all year and he wanted a bit of good ground, and we hadn’t been getting it the last six weeks.”