Horse racing: Puppet Master pulls strings in O’Brien’s domination of Classics trial season

Aidan O’Brien’s Ballydoyle operation can look back on a clean sweep at Chester and Lingfield over the last four days

Here’s the closing stages of the opener, from ITV Racing’s Twitter/X feed.

Ryan Moore told Oli Bell, ITV’s racecourse reporter, that the going was “good-to-firm, firm in places” on the way back to the unsaddling enclosure. He did well to keep a lid on Giselle as she raced keenly behind the steady pace in the opening half-mile, and while she strode well clear of her field from the two-pole, she will need to settle much better than that if she goes to the Oaks at Epsom on 6 June.