Royal Ascot next for O'Callaghan's Curragh winner Celeron

Trained for the New Morning Syndicate by Michael O'Callaghan, Celeron put up a powerful display to win the Pension Structures Irish EBF Maiden for two-year-olds at the Curragh.

An 18/1 shot in the hands of Jamie Powell, Celeron battled in determined fashion to see off the challenge of Donnacha O'Brien’s once-raced 4/1 chance Tradewinds well inside the final furlong.

He stayed on to score by two lengths at the line from the Joseph O'Brien-trained 11/1 chance One Number who got up to pip Tradewinds by a shorthead for the runner-up spot. There was another shorthead back to the fourth-placed Sirocco Sands the 5/2 favourite, trained by David Marnane.

“He’s a horse that we bought privately in the spring,” said O’Callaghan.

“Since we got him he’s just improved and improved, we always thought he was a nice horse.

“Unfortunately he didn’t get to start in Navan the last day so we came here.

“He’s a good horse and he’s won like a good horse. Jamie said he was pricking his ears at the line.

“I’m one of the very few trainers that’s delighted to see the new conditions of the Windsor Castle.

“Six furlongs for stallions that have won over seven-and-a-half furlongs or further, which Mohaather has done. That’s the plan now, he’ll probably go there.

“He’s a big, raw, green, baby and he’s only going to get better.”