O’Brien at the double

Aidan O’Brien completed a double with odds-on favourites Toscanelli and Marchese Marconi in Limerick last night.

Seamus Heffernan explained: “He’s a very well-bred colt (a half-brother to Mars) and improved a fair bit form his first run. He should continue to progress,” after the Galileo colt Toscanelli justified 8/13 favouritism in the two-year-old maiden, sweeping past front-running Soebrotto at the furlong-pole to triumph by almost three lengths.

Successful on Macbride in a bumper on this track last month, Sarah O’Brien provided her trainer-father with the second leg of the double when 4/5 shot Marchese Marconi captured the finale, the Derek Ryan 24th July Race.