Beauty can come good
Five times in all Dermot Weld’s charge has run and on four of those occasions has filled the runner’s up berth.
Luminous Beauty’s latest two efforts have seen her go under to colts trained by John Oxx.
At the Curragh she chased home the very smart Millstreet, but then failed to build on that when finding Mkuzi a length and a half too good, back at the Curragh.
She is now dropped to a mile - the Curragh races were over ten furlongs - and, fitted with blinkers for the first time, may find this opposition very much to her liking!
We know some of Aidan O’Brien’s juveniles are coughing, but he is still represented in the divisions of the Bagenalstown two-year-old Maiden.
In the second section he introduces the Kingmambo colt Russia, but preference is for Weld’s Great Compton, a promising sixth behind another Ballydoyle inmate, Macedonian King, at Naas.
The first division looks the weaker and O’Brien’s Sadler’s Wells newcomer, Cougar, is a hopeful choice.
Tom Taaffe’s Secret Native is the one to beat in the two miles Fenniscourt Maiden.
The seven-year-old is best known as a useful staying hurdler, but there was little wrong with his performance on the level at Galway when finishing three and a half lengths second to hot-pot Dibiya.
