Beautifully-bred Ballydoyle colt wins at Killarney Champion trainer Aidan O’Brien won with another promising juvenile at Killarney today, as regally-bred Benvenuto Cellini (2/5f) landed the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden, almost a year since Lambourn scored dramatically at the course. Successful jockey Wayne Lordan steered Lambourn to a fortuitous debut course success last July 17 before to landing June's English Derby on the colt and, today, was on Frankel-sired Benvenuto Cellini, who is out of impressive Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf winner Newspaperofrecord. Benefitting from a recent Curragh debut runner-up effort, Benvenuto Cellini made all to smartly defeat stablemate Endorsement by 2.75 lengths. Ballydoyle representative Chris Armstrong reported “Benvenuto Cellini had a lovely run at the Curragh and coming here, this was going to be a lovely race for him. He was very babyish at the Curragh and again today where he jumped out and led, but Wayne said he was looking at the cars on the inside. “It looked a decent maiden and he went away and won well so that is a decent sign. He improved from the Curragh to here and will improve again from here to his next run, which could be in the Futurity Stakes. Whatever he does you’d think will be a bonus as he’ll make up into a smashing middle distance horse for next year. He is one with a touch of class. “You only have to look at some of the previous winners around here and even at the horses who have finished in-behind, to see how good these maidens are and you need a stakes horse to come here. There aren’t many who win here who aren’t above average.” Benvenuto Cellini was an Italian sculptor of the 16th century.
