Weld filly brushes aside maiden tag

Morning favourite Brushed Aside drifted to 11/4, could have been backed at 3s, in the face of support for Blue Dahlia (as big as 9/2 in a place early-doors and ended up finishing 6th as the 11/10 favourite) and the market got this one wrong as the former prevailed by a cosy length and three quarters.

Always on the gallop, Pat Smullen, sporting the Kalid Abdullah silks, went to the front on Brushed Aside with under a quarter of a mile left to race and she stayed on well to beat Plurin.

Dermot Weld trains the first-time blinkered daughter of Oasis Dream and she was getting off the mark at the fifth attempt having been no worse than fourth in her previous outings.

Smullen commented: "She ran creditably all last year and she was entitled to win her maiden like that off her rating. The blinkers were probably a help."