Bairns St Bay can open account in fillies maiden

Bairns St Bay will be strongly fancied to open her account for Ger Lyons and Anamoine Lt d in the Ladbrokes Fillies Maiden in Dundalk tonight.

The Big Bad Bob filly has performed creditably in her three outings to date, filling the runner-up berth in her last two starts and earning an official mark of 78, which should be good enough to win a polytrack maiden in mid-February.

Fourth to Sparklingsovereign on her debut, Bairns St Bay was then beaten a length by Sharaasa and, last time, she started favourite to beat 94-rated Avenue Montaigne, which had previously run well in a listed event in Newmarket.