Jibe entered the picture for the Oaks at Epsom on June 5th after effecting makeshift repairs to a damaged reputation at Newbury yesterday. Two spring defeats at Newmarket appeared to have sunk the reputation of Henry Cecil's filly as a Classic prospect.

But with her nets cast in the easier waters of the Listed Newbury Fillies' Trial Stakes, she justified odds-on favouritism to rekindle hopes she might be up to beating the best.

Racing fourth of the quintet for Kieren Fallon as Genoa cut out the running, she moved towards the lead with three furlongs But she still had to be punched out vigorously to beat Genoa by three and a half lengths to justify 8 to 15 favouritism.

Jibe is a 16 to 1 shot for the second fillies' Classic with William Hill, who quote Cecil's Musidora runner-up Midnight Line, the likely mount of Fallon, at 3 to 1.