Cork maiden winners likely to make their mark at higher level

High Heels and Seamie Heffernan run out easy winners of the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Maiden at Cork. Picture: Healy Racing.

Wednesday evening’s Cork card looked a potentially informative one and the fullness of time should shed it in a great light as there were three impressive winners of the maidens on the first half of the card.

Jessica Harrington earned the headlines with a double, the first leg of which was Loch Lein in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden. Runner-up to St Mark’s Basilica on her second start, she was entitled to be a warm favourite on the back of that effort and duly obliged. Clearly at home on the quick ground, she lengthened well in the closing stages to win readily.