Seamie Heffernan is thrilled to have kept the ride on Aidan O’Brien’s Investec Oaks heroine Was as she takes on her elders for the first time in Sunday’s Barclays Bank Ireland Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh.

Sir Michael Stoute’s Golan - ridden by Kieren Fallon - will exit from an inside draw in stall three in the 22nd running of the Japan Cup in Nakayama on Sunday.