Cameo

Her first win came at The Curragh in early October 2025 over seven furlongs, and O'Brien has been building her carefully. A Group 3 race back at The Curragh on heavy ground didn't come off — she finished fourth — but that kind of testing ground often teaches a young filly lessons. More recently, she ran in a major trial for the Oaks, Epsom's most prestigious race for three-year-old fillies, but the result suggests she didn't quite have the pace the race demanded. O'Brien noted afterwards that jockey Wayne Lordan felt she might have wanted a stronger early gallop, the kind that would have suited her better.

Everything changed when Cameo switched to Lingfield Park four months ago, in May. That's where she recorded her second win, and it clearly brought out something special. Ryan Moore, who rode her that day, was effusive about what he felt underneath him. She described her as scopey — having long, athletic strides — and noted that she picked up and kept going when asked, handling the track itself with real fluency. Most tellingly, Moore suggested she'll improve as the year goes on, and that bigger things might be ahead. With the Oaks clearly in O'Brien's thinking, Cameo looks like a filly with genuine potential, even if her recent form has been patchy. Her last six races tell the story: a win, then a fifth, another fifth, an eighth, a sixth, and a fifth again. She raced just a day ago, so she's very much an active project.