Progressive Mean Lae looks set to go one better on stiffer track

MEAN LAE should prove tough to beat in the seven-furlong Irish Stallion Farms Fillies Maiden at Naas tonight.

This Jim Bolger-trained filly showed little in her sole juvenile start, when sixth to Sugar Free in a five-furlong Tipperary maiden.

But the daughter of Breeders Cup Juvenile winner Johannesburg shaped with plenty of promise on her three-year-old debut, when getting within a head of Samba School in an admittedly modest seven-furlong maiden at Limerick. The Bolger filly is entitled to improve significantly from that run and, likely to be suited by this stiffer track, she looks capable of getting off the mark here.