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Her most recent win came at Navan in April 2025, and O'Brien was in no mood to undersell it. He had deliberately pitched her against colts in her two previous races, which is an unusual and ambitious decision — it is the racing equivalent of entering a club-level tennis player against the men's draw just to test them. She more than held her own, and when a drop of rain softened the ground before the Navan meeting, the team switched plans from Chester and sent her there instead. She won impressively, suggesting the decision was well judged.

The bigger picture, though, is where this gets genuinely interesting. O'Brien has mentioned that she was second in the Irish Oaks and placed in three other top-level races — the kind of form that marks a horse out as genuinely elite. Winning one of those races at the highest level is the stated aim for the season ahead. Her reappearance since that Navan victory has been underwhelming — she has not won in her last 6 races, and recent form reads 3-7-6-2-4-4 — but O'Brien's view after her first run back was that there was still improvement to come, and the target is the Pretty Polly at the Curragh, one of the marquee summer races for horses like her.

Her most reliable distance appears to be around a mile and one or two furlongs, where she has won 1 from 3 races — a 33% win rate, which is genuinely strong. Regular jockey Dylan Browne McMonagle has ridden her in 8 of her 11 races and been there for both wins, making it a well-established partnership. If the form shown in the spring can be recaptured, the step up to a top-level prize is not fanciful — it is the plan.