Ger Lyons Excited by Impressive Leopardstown Display from Maire Rua The Ger Lyons-trained Maire Rua (13/8) made a sparkling debut at Leopardstown Racecourse in the Irish EBF fillies maiden as the daughter of Frankel overcame a wide draw to get off the mark at the first time of asking for jockey Colin Keane and owners Juddmonte by two and a half lengths. She travelled sweetly throughout and was pushed along before the bend, where she showed her rivals a clean pair of heels to extend clear of the front-running Nevermindtherain. The Joseph O'Brien-trained Bellesque finished off her race well to finish second. Speaking after the race trainer Ger Lyons said "She's a nice filly. As Colin says and, we said it all along, if we have a good one at home it's her. First day away, I tend to get stall 14 of ten when I'm up here when I've a nice filly! She's done it; there should be plenty of improvement on it. That's the first time she's ever been off the bridle with me. "We'll bring her home and, we'll see how she comes out of it but the usual, it's nice to win first time out but it's not important. There's a new Listed in Cork on 14th August - that type of race we'll look at and, then you'd like to hope that she's going to keep doing that. "The ultimate dream in Glenburnie is always to try and win a Moyglare. Hopefully if you win a Moyglare, you know you have one of the main characters for next years Classics and that's what the dream is. As I said, if we have a good one, it's her." Quotes from John O'Riordan
