Profound looks primed

PROFOUND Beauty looks primed to give Dermot Weld a seventh Irish Field St Leger at the Curragh today.

Weld has won the final classic of the Irish season with Vintage Crop (twice) and Vinnie Roe (four times). And Profound Beauty, another horse that has represented him in the Melbourne Cup, must be strongly fancied to provide Walter Haefner, owner of the Moyglare Stud, which owns the mare, with an early present, two days before his 100th birthday.

A seven-time stakes winner, Profound Beauty disappointed in soft to heavy ground in last year’s Irish St. Leger, finishing a well-beaten fourth behind Alandi, a horse she had earlier beaten in the Curragh Cup.