Ger Lyons struck with his first two-year-old runner of the season as Proudly Yours made a successful debut at odds of 3/1 in the opening Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden at Dundalk.

It was hard to discount any of the nine runners as they were stretched across the track under two furlongs out. Sir Yoshi challenged towards the stand side when jinking right just inside the final furlong and this proved crucial as Proudly Yours kept a straight line up the centre of the track under Colin Keane to beat that rival by half-a-length. Brosay finished a further three quarters of a length back in third.

Keane said, "The boss has kind of been a bit easier on the two-year-olds this year. They have only done a handful of breezes over three furlongs as such.

"Everything she has done, she has done very professionally at home and we were adamant that she was ready to start and that she would handle the good surface. I think you only need to show her once and she knows what she is doing.

"You would imagine that she is a filly that would have no problem going an extra furlong during the summer and hopefully can build into a black-type filly."

Quotes by Michael Graham