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Today was a bit of an eye opener. The ground was borderline good and as a result Maymine was out of her comfort zone everywhere. Nothing ventured etc and she can now work back up to that level through the handicap route. Soft ground isn’t the be all but at 5.5furlongs, on that ground, it is. Tomorrow we head to Roscommon with Saturday’s winner Bianca Minola and she runs here with a 6lb penalty. She looked like winning easy 2 down at Cork but through loneliness or tiredness she just held on. Given her wellbeing since the race I’m hoping it’s the former. She has eaten well and exercised lightly for the last 2 days. She’s drawn poorly but Billy can mitigate that somehow and I’d be hopeful of another big run. These staying fillies can get on a roll and I can think of 2 last year that progressed from modest levels to run up a sequence. Both with a Motivator connection, this lady is out of a Motivator mare, hopefully there’s another day or 4 in her!!! I jest but she’s a hardy, likeable little lady and tomorrow will be interesting.