Aidan O’Brien’s Minding simply too classy for her rivals in the Mooresbridge Stakes at Naas
Aidan O'Brien's star filly enjoyed an easy day out at Naas where she made a winning seasonal reappearance under a hands and heels ride from Ryan Moore
MINDING stamped her class on the Camelot Irish EBF Mooresbridge Stakes at Naas.
Aidan O'Brien's multiple Group 1 winning filly dispatched her rivals with ease under Ryan Moore.
Jim Bolger's Moonlight Magic tried to take her on for the lead early, but Moore soon established an advantage which his mount would never relinquish.
Without being asked too many questions, Minding took a few lengths out of the field and the 1-3 favourite extended in pleasing fashion.
O'Brien said: "We're delighted to get her started back, it's nice to get her going again. Ryan was very happy with her.
"She has the options of the Tattersalls (Gold Cup) or the Lockinge at Newbury. We'll probably be looking at the Tattersalls, I'd imagine that's where we'll go.
"We'll take it one at a time but we'd be thinking of the Prince Of Wales at Royal Ascot then.
"She's a great filly and what she did last year was incredible. To go back to a mile at the end, it's very rare a horse can do that over a mile, a mile and a quarter and a mile and a half.
"She's done well physically and has changed into a four-year-old. When she was a two-year-old she looked like a two-year-old and then she looked like a three-year-old, but sometimes horses going from three to four don't look like four-year-olds. She has changed."