Naas Report:You'resothrilling followed in the hoofprints of Giant's Causeway by winning at Naas yesterday and there was enough in the display to suggest to some she may even outdo her illustrious six-time Group One winning brother in one respect next year.
Giant's Causeway won his maiden at the track in 1999 but You'resothrilling got off the mark in some style by landing the Group Three Swordlestown Stud Sprint Stakes and earned quotes of 12 to 1 for next year's Newmarket 1,000 Guineas in the process.
Giant's Causeway had to be content with finishing runner-up in both the English and Irish Guineas before continuing his famous winning streak and there is no disguising the regard that You'resothrilling is held in at Ballydoyle.
"She is like her brother in that she is lazy and when she gets to the front she thinks she has done enough," said Aidan O'Brien who will aim the filly at either the Queen Mary or the Albany Stakes at Royal Ascot.
Jockey Séamus Heffernan, who had earlier landed the opening handicap on Kyles Bay, was also impressed and reported: "She had a lovely run at the Curragh and we thought she would improve. She is bred to be decent and has a good bit of class."
Ascot's King Stand Stakes could also see a rematch of yesterday's Listed sprint which saw the Dandy Nicholls-trained Tax Free upset the odds-on Dandy Man with the Prix de l'Abbaye winner Desert Lord back in third.
Dandy Man, having his first start for Princess Haya Of Jordan, was beaten a length but his trainer Tracey Collins was not too despondent. "I can't take anything from the winner but our horse is better on fast ground which we will hopefully get at Ascot. He is in the Kings Stand and the Jubilee and we will decide nearer the time," she said. "All in all though, it was some Listed race."
Nicholls was of a similar view but as well as the Kings Stand, he also has the King Of Beers Stakes at the Curragh on Derby weekend in mind for Tax Free. "I didn't think we'd beat Dandy Man but he put in a good time (57.81) which is a good time on a stiff track," the English trainer said.
David Wachman was in double form with Potion, who landed the fillies handicap and Chariots Of Fire, who justified favouritism with a half-length defeat of the slightly unlucky She's Our Mark in the conditions race. "He is still immature mentally so we will work our way up in Group Threes. Ascot is a possibility," said the trainer.
Jockey Kevin Manning, who rode Namaya in this race, got a three-day ban for careless riding after an incident with Gee Kel three furlongs out.
Dermot Weld is in no doubt that Profound Beauty is a high-class filly and she proved that in some style with a five-length all-the-way success in the concluding maiden. "We will look at the Ribblesdale and I've always seen her as an Irish Oaks filly. Over a mile and a half she will come into her own. I think she is very good," he said.
