O'Brien looking to Maybe Aidan O'Brien is mainly looking to Maybe from his six-strong team to give him a fourth triumph in the Investec Oaks at Epsom on Friday. It is six years since the Ballydoyle trainer last landed the fillies' Classic with Alexandrova and he is going all out to win it again. Maybe heads his sextet and she is on something of a retrieval mission having lost her unbeaten record on her seasonal reappearance in the 1000 Guineas. She could only finish third behind stablemate Homecoming Queen at Newmarket after a lengthy delay to the start of the race due to the fatal injury suffered by Gray Pearl. However, O'Brien was satisfied with the run. "We were very happy with her run in the Guineas when the ground was a bit on the slow side," O'Brien told Racing UK. "It was her first run of the year and perhaps she laboured a little bit through the race, but she was in the stalls a long time and lots of things happened. "She is by Galileo and she has a very fast pedigree, so a mile and a half is unknown until we do it. "She's a big, powerful filly, she always was, she's like a big colt really. "She's big, but very well balanced. It's all about balance." O'Brien also has Betterbetterbetter, Devotion, Kissed, Twirl and Was in the mix as he sees the Oaks as a highly-significant race for potential broodmares. "Betterbetterbetter ran a good race at Chester and Joseph said if he was riding her again, he might delay her challenge," he said. "Twirl returned at York and would like to step up to a mile and a half. The Oaks is an incredibly important race for the pedigree."
