AN ambitious Irish adventure for American trainer Keri Brion ended on a high as The Mean Queen bolted up in a mares’ maiden hurdle at Wexford last Friday to bring the curtain down on her trainer’s near fourth-month stint on these shores.

After getting off the mark with Scorpion’s Revenge at Cork the previous Sunday, Brion’s final runner in Ireland for this season looked to hold compelling claims. On her racecourse debut, which came for Yvonne Latta, this daughter of Doyen chased home a very smart mare in Sayce Gold, and even better was to come on her first start for her current trainer when she filled the runner-up spot behind Me Too Please at Down Royal.