Maybe lands her first graded stakes win in the Group 3 Silver Flash Stakes under Joseph O’Brien
The Aidan O’Brien trained 2-year-old bay filly, Maybe, has made a fantastic start to her career. It got better when she landed the Group 3 Silver Flash Stakes at Leopardstown on 14 July, 2011.
The Galileo filly made it three wins from three starts, but it wasn’t an easy run as she narrowly escaped challenges from rival, La Collina, to finish first.
With trainer Aidan O’Brien’s son Joseph O’Brien aboard, holding off challenges for the 2-year-old chestnut filly, defeating her by a neck which was a little too close for comfort.
This way Maybe’s first Group prize and now she is being considered for the QIPCO 1,000 Guineas, where she is sent off at 2 to 7 odds to win the race.
Maybe started her career for owner Michael Tabor in 2011 spring/summer season. She broke her maiden in the Irish Stallion Farms European Breeders Fund 2yo Fillies Maiden at a distance of six furlongs.
The race was run at Naas in Ireland on 11 May, which drew a field of 10 two-year-old fillies.
Ridden by C O’Donoghue, Maybe soon assumed the leader’s position, it took her a furlong to get into her strides and virtually blasted off to the wire, winning her maiden race Princess Sinead by a good 4 ½ lengths.
Maybe by Sumora entered the Royal Ascot to participate in a listed race called the Chesham Stakes on 18 June, 2011.
On a massive field of 16 horses, Maybe under jockey Ryan Moore travelled well in the first two furlongs.
Two furlongs out, Maybe led the pack and cleared out with the runner-up, asserted her impressive run one furlong out, finished well before Fort Bastion by 2 ¼ lengths.
The filly will try to continue her winning streak in the QIPCO 1,000 Guineas Stakes, a major new premier series for three-year-old fillies.
She gave Aidan O’Brien his seventh Silver Flash Stakes race and this filly seems to have a bright future ahead of her than most of those winners that has gone before.
Maybe turned some heads when she defeated colts in Chesham Stakes at Ascot, was not at her best at Leopardstown.
She seems to do it pretty easily in the end, but this time around La Collina gave her a run for her money.
Maybe got challenged to the core but managed to save her winning streak just by a neck.
La Collina reached her girth with a furlong to go and kept at it till the end, but Maybe’s impressive run matched the challenge as she fended the chestnut fill off to the wire.
Next challenge for Maybe would be stepping up to the mile, and the filly give mysterious vibes that she will win a plenty over that kind of distance.
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