Luas Line books her ticket for Belmont Park
Trainer David Wachman expressed reservations about the filly's effectiveness on the softening ground and she proved easy to back, drifting from 5/4 to 7/4.
But her supporters never had any worries once the stalls opened as she travelled strongly throughout and always looked the likely winner of the extended nine furlong contest.
Luas Line cruised into the lead with two furlongs to race, earlier than jockey Wayne Lordan had planned, but she kept going strongly to land this listed prize by a length and a half from Sanserif.
Fourth in the American Oaks at Hollywood Park already this season, Luas Line will travel for her next American assignment at Belmont Park on September 10.
Jockey Wayne Lordan is enjoying his best ever season and looked set to complete a double for Wachman in the two year old fillies maiden event but his mount, California Dreamer, was worn down by Icy Ridge, which came from the rear of the field with a storming late challenge to land the spoils.
Icy Ridge, a son of Orpen, was making his debut for trainer Joe Crowley and carries the colours of his daughter Ann Marie, wife of Aidan O'Brien. Icy Ridge was ridden to victory by Colm O'Donoghue.
The season's leading rider Fran Berry, still in Blanchardstown Hospital and facing a lengthy absence from the saddle having fractured his sternum (breastbone) in a fall at the Curragh on Saturday, missed two winners on yesterday's card.
Shane Gorey, who is apprenticed to Dermot Weld, deputised successfully for Berry on board Common Venture, which got the better of top weight Karramalu to win the Roof Top Restaurant at Gowran Park Handicap for trainer Tom McCourt.
The second winner missed by Berry was Owen Griffin's In The Folly which stepped up on his debut second at Galway to win the Kilkenny Racing Festival Maiden under Declan McDonogh.
Local trainer Jim Bolger continued his impressive recent strike rate when Loblolly Bay, owned by Maktoum Al Maktoum, captured the Bulmers Fillies Handicap, Kevin Manning's filly holding the late surge of Devious Diva, ridden by Chris Hayes, fresh from his big handicap win at Beverley on Saturday.
Johnny Murtagh renewed his association with the Robbie Burns-trained Davorin to win the Bulmers Handicap at the expense of Keen Look. Having only his third outing in Ireland, Davorin was previously trained in England by David Loder and was ridden to victory by Murtagh in a Newmarket maiden early last season.
