Nina Carberry rode her rivals to sleep with an all-the-way win on Maal in the Waterford & Tramore Directors Ladies Maiden.
Carberry dictated terms to suit herself in the mile-and-a-half contest on the 6-4 favourite and kicked for home shortly before entering the home straight.
Joys Island tried to mount a challenge, but could never get on terms with the winner, who sailed passed the post with three lengths in hand.
Those who took the short price about Fine Design in the Irish Stallion Farms European Breeders Fund Maiden had their fingers burned when she was overturned by Sufad (6-4).
The daughter of Sadler's Wells and dual Oaks heroine Ramruma was sent about her business a long way out, with Danny Grant attempting to capitalise on her undoubted stamina.
However, Declan McDonough was in stalking mode on the Kevin Prendergast-trained Sufad and he pounced well inside the final furlong to deny the odds-on favourite by half a length.
Fine Design's trainer David Wachman suffered another reverse when market leader Polka Dot finished out of the money in the Lisselan Fillies Handicap.
Grant was hard at work from some way out on the favourite, who didn't handle the top bend too well, and the writing was on the wall from the time they turned for home.
At the business end of proceedings, Tangible (10-1) made a winning return to the level. Fit from a spell over timber, Liam McAteer's mare took up the running straightening up and never looked in danger from that point, eventually beating First Symphony by five and a half lengths.
The application of blinkers helped Kharsya break her duck in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Maiden.
Touched off in a better contest at Clonmel last time, she was sent off the 1-5 favourite to atone and duly obliged, shooting clear three furlongs out before accounting for Value Of Time by three lengths.
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