Hope makes breakthrough on outing four

Full Of Hope (available as big as 4/5 this morning in a place) with Rock Medley a non-runner, justified the confidence of those that backed her from 2/5 into 1/3 on track, taking the Irish Stallion Farms European Breeders Fund Maiden by a comfortable length and a quarter under Johnny Murtagh.

The Kilcarn Stud-bred daughter of Invincible Spirit headed the front-running Strandhill about a furlong out and she needed to be kept up to her work to prevail. The staying-on Blasket Spirit was a neck back in third.

Aidan O'Brien trains the 73-rated three-times previously raced 220,000 guineas two-year-old for Michael Tabor/Derrick Smith and Sue Magnier.