Promising mare Missed The Alarm confirmed her rating as a future staying prospect when she skipped half a dozen race classes to win at Eagle Farm.

Trainer Steve O'Dea had planned to take Missed The Alarm to Grafton on Monday but decided to set the mare for Saturdays race instead.

Missed The Alarm ($4.80) proved O'Dea a good judge when she got up to beat Tactee ($3.10) by a nose with a short half head to Great Powers ($8.50) in the Drivers Recruitment Handicap (1815m).

It was the ninth metropolitan win for the season for the combination of O'Dea, his biggest clients in Proven Thoroughbred and apprentice Stephanie Thornton.

"Missed The Alarm was only a Class 1 horse and there was a race for her at Grafton. But she had done so well I decided to skip a few classes and bring her to town," O'Dea said.

"She is a big rangy mare and I think she has a bit of a future as a stayer."

Missed The Alarm, who was originally trained by John Thompson in Sydney, is bred to be a top stayer being by sire Rip Van Winkle out of a Volksraad mare in Kharmann Ghia.

Thornton said Missed The Alarm had got to the leaders quickly and fought on well in the final 100m.