Excel-lent day for O’Brien

Excelebration, a Group 1 winner for Marco Botti last season made a successful debut for Aidan O’Brien when outclassing his six rivals in the Big Bad Bob Gladness Stakes at the Curragh yesterday.

Mon, 23 Apr, 2012 - 01:00
John Ryan

The four-year-old’s smooth success proved the highlight of a treble for Aidan O’Brien and provided his son Joseph with the second leg of a double.

Excelebration came through strongly to master pacemaking stable-companion Windsor Palace at the furlong-pole before forging clear to triumph by three and a quarter lengths.

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CourtsRacingPlace: CurraghPlace: LockingePlace: NewburyPlace: GalwayPlace: CorkPlace: Marble HillPerson: O’BrienPerson: Marco BottiPerson: Aidan O’BrienPerson: JosephPerson: FrankelPerson: NephritePerson: Seamus HeffernanPerson: HeffernanPerson: CoolnagreePerson: Joseph O’BrienPerson: JospehPerson: Infanta BrancaPerson: Leitir MorPerson: HenrythenavigatorPerson: HenryPerson: ChrysanthemumPerson: Wayne LordanPerson: Vivacious ViviennePerson: David WachmanEvent: Big Bad Bob Gladness StakesEvent: Anne Brewster Memorial Loughbrown StakesEvent: Run Kildare 13th May Alleged StakesOrganisation: QipcoOrganisation: Stallion Farms
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