SIX days after being scratched from the Irish 1000 Guineas due to the ground, the promising Roca Roma took advantage of an appreciably easier assignment to justify her position as the 1/2 favourite for the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Maiden over a mile.

This half-sister to the Royal Ascot winner Roca Tumu had just one run last year, when finishing second to Amma Grace in a Leopardstown maiden in October, and a repeat of anything like that form was going to make her hard to beat.