Easy for odds-on Aegina in Dundalk curtain raiser The Donnacha O'Brien trained Aegina readily justified short priced favouritism under Chris Hayes when opening her account in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden at Dundalk. Sent off 1/3f, the Skara Glen Stables owned filly was smartly into stride, tracking Institute in the early stages of the contest. Pushed along to lead over a furlong from home, the daughter of Havana Grey asserted inside the final furlong to post an easy three-and-a-half length success. Hayes said: “She deserved it, she had the strongest form coming into it and it’s job done. She was well placed. “She went down lovely and relaxed, she jumped and she travelled. It was like a piece of work to her. “I was taken with her because she ran through the line and took a bit of pulling up. “She’s going to be a lovely filly for the three-year-old sprinting division next. There is a race at Naas and the Polonia in Cork over five-and-a-half furlongs, that’s not going to be an issue.” Additional reporting by Gary Carson
