Ballydoyle win with another juvenile gelding Coolmore’s partners scored with a second gelded juvenile this season today, as Controlled (100/30) landed Naas’ Goffs Two Million Series Maiden for champion trainer Aidan O’Brien and under jockey Jack Cleary. Despite being well-bred, Controlled had unusually been gelded ahead of last month’s debut, with that Curragh juvenile race also being won by stablemate and similarly-cut subsequent Group 3-winner Mission Central . Today Controlled, wearing first-time blinkers, stepped forward from that eighth-placing when scoring readily by three lengths from reappearing Aegina . Ballydoyle’s representative Chris Armstrong said “we put the blinkers on Controlled at home just to help him come forward a bit quicker, and in fairness they have worked today. Jack gave him a lovely ride, they went an even tempo and when he asked him, he quickened. When the second (Aegina) came to him, he found another bit which is a good sign. “Jack said he’s not stuck to five (furlongs) and could go seven, so we could have a look at the Star Appeal or the Legacy at Dundalk in the first week of October. He should have no problem stepping up into Listed class.” Quotes from Alan Magee
