Imagine maintained the fine form of Aidan O`Brien juveniles when justifying plenty of market support for the featured Weld Park Stakes at the Curragh.
Fourth last Sunday to Crystal Music in the Fillies Mile at Ascot, Imagine was backed from 4-1 to 5-2 favourite and made most of the running to considerably boost her paddock value.
A half-sister to Generous, Imagine was quickly into her stride in the hands of Paul Scallan and went clear under two furlongs out before tiring somewhat as Katherine Seymour came with a late run.
'She is probably only fully fit now. The run at Ascot sharpened her up and I think she will be an Oaks filly next season,' said O`Brien.
The Tipperary trainer earlier produced another smart newcomer as Perigee Moon, a big market drifter, romped away with the Ballymany Maiden with another of the O`Brien apprentice`s Colin O`Donoghue aboard.
Hopes of a hat-trick with the O`Brien juveniles came unstuck in surprise circumstances in the Go Racing In Kildare Maiden as College Dreamer denied O`Brien`s debutante El Bueno by a length.
Returned at 25-1 but paying over 200-1 on the Tote, College Dreamer was well handled by apprentice Gordon Power to become the first winner saddled in 20 years by her 84-year-old Tipperary trainer Ned Kennedy.
Another permit holder among the winners was Donel Kinsella whose Tragic Lover (16-1) took the Ladbrokes Irish Cesarewitch to give jockey Connor Everard only his second winner of the season.
