Blackbriar displayed the benefit of experience when getting off the mark on start number seven in the opening Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden at Cork.

The Wayne Lordan-ridden daughter of Kyllachy raced on the near side (always to the fore) and she got the better of I Well Excel (similarly experienced and raced far side here) by four and three parts of a length.

Big money newcomer General Marshall had to settle for third, three and a half lengths further back.

Tommy Stack trains Blackbriar, who was equipped with first-time cheek-pieces here, and his son 'Fozzy' said: "Experience is always a help and the cheek-pieces were a help too.

"We'll look for a bit of black-type now and there's a Listed race that would suit at the Curragh." (TW & EM)