Oaks trip Maybe an issue

Joseph O’Brien has his fingers crossed Maybe will last home when she steps up to a mile and a half in the Investec Oaks at Epsom today.

The 19-year-old is excited at the prospect of partnering the daughter of Galileo, who heads a strong team of fillies from his father Aidan’s stable in the fillies’ Classic.

O’Brien jnr was convinced Maybe would stay the eight furlongs of the Qipco 1000 Guineas at Newmarket, in which she finished a staying-on third, but this extra half a mile is another matter.