Beset back with another Listed win Beset picked up where she left off, winning another Listed race on her return to action in the Devoy Stakes at Naas this afternoon. The Joseph O’Brien-trained filly had scored at the same level on her final start of last season at the Curragh and went to post an 11/4 shot in today’s ten furlong contest. Declan McDonogh was soon in front on the Expert Eye filly, who was pressed from before halfway by Iowa City. She was asked for an effort passing the two pole and asserted inside the final furlong as stablemate Lemsairbat ran on to take the runner-up spot, three lengths behind. O’Brien said:- “She’s a tough filly. She finished off the year great last year and she’s picked up where she left off. “She likes soft ground so we had planned to start early and it’s great to win a stakes race early in the year. “She stays well and handles the ground and in conditions like that they are two helpful things. “She’ll probably go for a group race somewhere now. There is a race in Newbury over a mile-and-a-half. “We’d like to find a bit of juice in the ground in group company, wherever that might be. “She’d have options in France. In Ireland the Munster Oaks in Cork is probably the obvious race for her if the ground was soft.” On the runner-up Lemsairbat he added:- “It was probably a career best from her. She’ll probably come back to Gowran Park in a month. She likes a bit of juice in the ground too.”
