Seamie Heffernan | Barclays Bank Ireland Pretty Polly Stakes

Seamie Heffernan | Barclays Bank Ireland Pretty Polly Stakes. Seamie Heffernan is thrilled to own kept the ride on Aidan O'Brien's Investec Oaks heroine Was as she takes on her elders for the primary time in Sunday's Barclays Bank eire Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh.

The daughter of Galileo was a surprise 20-1 winner of the mile-and-a-half Epsom Classic earlier this month below Heffernan, together with her better-fancied stablemate perhaps overwhelmed into fifth.

The try do battle once more over ten furlongs this weekend and also the trainer's son, Joseph, can yet again partner perhaps, leaving the means clear for Heffernan to urge back on Was.

Heffernan said: "She's a Classic winner and i am very trying forward to riding her once more. These are the races you wished to be riding in.

"I got a decent trip spherical Epsom. I knew where I wished to be the total means and she or he got the task done well.

"Hopefully she will improve from that and it'll be attention-grabbing to visualize how she handles conditions, because the ground goes to be terribly totally different to what she raced on in Epsom.

"She's coming to ten furlongs, however i do not assume that may be an excessive amount of of a hindrance.

"The ground is perhaps additional of a worry than the trip, however it is the same for all of them and hopefully my filly is on a going day once more and that we get a little of luck."

O'Brien includes a third three-year-old representative in Up, who was last seen finishing down the sphere within the French Oaks.

The two major contenders from the older division are John Gosden's British raider Izzi prime, and Sapphire from the Dermot Weld yard.

The former has been most spectacular on her 2 appearances at Newmarket and York this season, however Gosden admits he would favor a sounder surface.

He said: "She's been in smart type since York however i might rather the bottom wasn't as soft as it's aiming to be, and that i presume that is the case with most. we have a tendency to would not wish to visualize from now on rain.

"They are calling it soft to serious and that is not ideal however this race has been her aim for a few time currently.

"It appearance a pleasant race, we have the Oaks winner there however it is a little field and a pleasant race.

"She's done nothing wrong, she's progressing however she hasn't stunned me within the slightest. i do not assume she quite stayed within the Oaks last year."

Conditions aren't such a worry for the connections of Sapphire, who looked abundant improved when bolting up on her seasonal reappearance at Cork.

Stan Cosgrove, racing manager for house owners Moyglare Stud, is in bullish mood.

He said: "She was thus spectacular the last day, we expect she'll run a colossal race within the Pretty Polly.

"She's been going sort of a mail train on the gallops and we're expecting her to run a large race.

"She showed a flip of foot the last day that she'd not shown before thus we're hopeful.

"The ground are going to be no issue for her, she likes it soft."

Jessica Harrington's Bible Belt showed some sensible type as a three-year-old and is anticipated to own progressed from her 1st run of the season behind thus you think that.

Harrington is, however, involved concerning the deep ground.

She said: "She's in specific order however i might wish to see a little higher ground for her.

"She's a gifted filly and that i assume she has improved a decent bit for her run the last day, that was her 1st begin since October.

"Coming back to a mile and 1 / 4 is not a haul, it's simply the bottom."

The David Simcock-trained i am A Dreamer joins Izzi prime on the trip from Britain and completes a field of seven declared runners.