MICHAEL HALFORD introduced a smashing newcomer in Casamento, the first horse he has trained for Sheikh Mohammed, to win the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Maiden at Tipperary last night.

JOSEPH O’BRIEN, rather than Johnnny Murtagh, takes the ride on Pirateer in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Maiden at Tipperary this evening, but the son of Danehill Dancer still gets the vote.