The Curragh takes centre stage on Sunday, with the G3 Weld Park S. the feature as Angel Palm (GB) (Dark Angel {Ire}) bids to put her 2-year-old peers in the shade. Last seen winning by three lengths in a Leopardstown maiden over this seven-furlong trip Aug. 13, Khalid Abdullah’s relative of Showcasing (GB) and Camacho (GB) has the look of one of Ger Lyons’s burgeoning stars. She meets the Sept. 12 Listed Ingabelle S. No Speak Alexander (Ire) (Shalaa {Ire}), with Ballydoyle’s Ingabelle winner Monday (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) a late scratch just two days after a disappointing fourth in Newmarket’s G2 Rockfel S. The Sept. 11 Limerick maiden winner Thinking of You (American Pharoah) sports the Tabor silks and warrants maximum respect from the Joseph O’Brien stable which houses two of the best of this generation in Thunder Moon (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) and Pretty Gorgeous (Fr) (Lawman {Fr}).
Also on the card is the G3 Comer Group International Loughbrown S., where The Aga Khan’s smart stayer Kastasa (Ire) (Rock of Gibraltar {Ire}) is fitted with a visor following her third placing in Naas’s G3 Stanerra S. Aug. 23. Successful by seven lengths in this 12 months ago, the Dermot Weld-trained homebred encounters Ballydoyle’s June 27 G1 Irish Derby third Dawn Patrol (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) who was sixth in the G1 St Leger at Doncaster Sept. 12.
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