Easy winner Maar looks an exciting prospect for Ado McGuinness

There’s nothing unusual about an Ado McGuinness-trained winner at Dundalk, but there was nothing ordinary about 1m2½f fillies’ maiden scorer Maar.

A gigantic daughter of Kingman, Maar proved she has an engine to match her good looks when putting daylight between herself and her rivals under Ronan Whelan.

The impressive performance sparked big aspirations from McGuinness, who is in little doubt of the quality underneath the bonnet of the filly.

He said: “I like this filly. She's huge and she's very well bred. She had a lovely first run here the last day over a mile and we always knew she wanted another couple of furlongs.

“She was very impressive there. We worked her during the week and I said something would have to be a 95-horse to beat her.”

McGuinness added: “She's a Stakes filly and could be an Oaks filly in the making. We'll definitely go for a trial now and hopefully get some black type. She's entitled to do it now.

“She's not in the Irish or English Oaks but I think she'll earn her place in it now. There's a lot to like about her and there are a lot of places we can go with her now. She's still a little on the weak side but fingers crossed she'll go forward.”

Moore among winners

Ryan Moore isn’t a name regularly published in the racecard at Dundalk but he made his trip to Ireland’s only all-weather track worthwhile when partnering Aidan O’Brien’s Cadamosto to victory in the opening 5f maiden.

Cadamosto was extremely professional on debut and Moore was complimentary of the No Nay Never colt afterwards.

He said: “He has a super attitude and travelled around very comfortably all the way. He had a little look when he got to the front but kept up to the task very well and you'd be very happy with what he did.”

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