Words writes the script on comeback

Off the track for almost a year, since making an impressive debut at the Curragh, the Aidan O’Brien-trained Words captured the Group 3 Munster Oaks, feature of yesterday’s action in Cork.

Subsequently described by winning rider Seamus Heffernan as “a little bit delicate”, the daughter of Dansili and Irish Oaks winner Moonstone was settled in last place in the four-runner affair as Roheryn dictated a muddling pace.

Carla Bianca, which usurped the friendless winner as favourite, cruised alongside the leader early in the straight before edging ahead. But Heffernan was closing on Words and, when he delivered his challenge, the inexperienced three-year-old, wearing a hood, stayed on well to foil Pat Smullen’s mount by three-quarters of a length, the pair finishing seven and a half lengths clear of the third.