Saxon Warrior Filly Blooms In Oaks Trial

Garden Of Eden (3f Saxon Warrior – Komedy, by Kodiac) relished a step up in trip on Saturday as she gained her first black-type success in the Listed Naas Oaks Trial.

A maiden winner at the track last August and later Listed-placed, the Aidan O’Brien-trained bay stepped up to ten furlongs at the weekend and raced prominently throughout under Ben Coen. Ridden before the two-furlong pole, she asserted inside the final furlong and kept on well to score by a length, with another three parts of a length back to Island Hopping (Wootton Bassett) in third.

Speaking after the race, Aidan O’Brien said: “Saxon Warrior is doing very well and they're middle-distance horses, and Ben [Coen, jockey] even said she'd get a mile and a half. He gave her a very good ride.

“She stays very well obviously. She has a little bit of class and I’d say she loved the ground. All those races are open to her now, she’s in that picture now.”

Owned by Coolmore partners, Garden Of Eden was bought by Peter and Ross Doyle as a yearling for €200,000. The Saxon Warrior filly was bred by Mark and Stephanie Hanly.