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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."

1st
11/4
Tote €3.30 €1.20
2nd
1.75L
9/1
€2.50
3rd
1.75L
33/1
€8.10
4th
1.25L
7/1
bf
1.5L
11/10Fav