Dundalk tips: Longer trip to suit Benavente

Lovely Esteem can make most of opportunity in fillies' maiden

Joseph O'Brien  can take the fillies maiden at Dundalk with Lovely Esteem. Picture: PA

Benavente can take the Irishinjuredjockeys.com Maiden for Richard O’Brien at Dundalk today. His sole outing to date was in a Naas maiden won by subsequent Group 1 winner Lucky Vega, and he ran with real promise.

Keen through the early stages, he was close to last place for much of the journey but when switched wide to make a run he finished to good effect to be beaten just four and a quarter lengths into seventh place.