Go for Beauty

DERMOT WELD and Pat Smullen, enjoying a real purple patch, are the combination to have on your side at Naas tonight.

The duo team up with the progressive Profound Beauty in the Group 3 Blue Wind Stakes and the daughter of Danehill gets the nap. Lightly raced, Profound Beauty has lots of scope for improvement. After winning a maiden on this track last season, she was then given her chance in the Irish Oaks at the Curragh in mid July. Profound Beauty could only manage a well beaten fifth behind the impressive Peeping Fawn, but testing conditions were all against her.

The four-year-old was then put away, until reappearing in a Listed event at the Curragh last month.The heavy surface was again far from ideal, but the selection ran a cracker to be beaten less than a length and a half into third behind Red Moloney.