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Trained by Joseph Patrick O'Brien at Owning Hill in Co Kilkenny — a yard that has sent out 160 winners already this season, which is a remarkable level of output — she won her first race at Cork in October 2024 before landing a second victory at Navan in late April 2025. That Navan win was no fluke. O'Brien had been deliberately patient after a disappointing reappearance, and when a drop of rain softened the ground he switched plans from Chester and came to Navan instead. She won impressively, and the trainer was candid afterwards about how aggressively he had campaigned her, including sending her against colts in back-to-back runs — a real statement of confidence in a filly.

Her most trusted partner in the saddle is Dylan Browne McMonagle, and together they have a striking record: 2 wins from 8 races, meaning they win 1 in every 4 times they team up. That's a strong partnership by any measure. She travels well at a mile and a furlong to a mile and two furlongs, winning 1 from 4 at those distances — her ideal range, it seems.

Recent form shows she hasn't won in her last six races, with finishes of 2-6-7-3-4-5 reading back from Navan, but O'Brien has made clear this season has a specific target in mind: a Group 1, with the Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh the race she is being pointed towards. He noted she was second in the Irish Oaks and placed in three other Group 1 races, so this is a horse already proven at the very highest level of European racing. She raced just one day ago and is currently active, which means whatever comes next is imminent. If O'Brien has timed things right the way he did at Navan, the name might just prove prophetic.