PEACE TIME

Unlucky Lyons filly is ready to have her day in the sun

UNLUCKY last time in Leopardstown, the Ger Lyons-trained Peace Charter should go close in the listed Irish Stallion Farms Sweet Mimosa Stakes at Cork Racecourse tomorrow.

A War Front filly which was successful on debut last year, Peace Charter finished a close third behind the classy Albigna and one of today’s rivals, Precious Moments, in the Group 2 Airlie Stud Stakes at the Curragh last June before disappointing on her final juvenile start at Naas.

The Juddmonte-owned selection made her seasonal reappearance in a Group 3 fillies trial at Leopardstown. She encountered a nightmare journey up the straight before finishing strongly, on the bridle, in fifth place behind Love Locket and Know It All, which franked the form when landing a Group 3 at the same track on Wednesday.

Dropping back to six furlongs, Peace Charter has a few pounds to find on her chief rivals but is undoubtedly better than the bare Leopardstown form might suggest. On that basis, she’s a hopeful choice.

The Joseph O’brien-trained Lady Penelope, winner of the listed Polonia at Naas last time, renews rivalry with runnerup You’resobeautiful on 3lb worse terms, while Punita Arora – badly hampered in that race – is better-judged on her earlier Naas success.

Irish St Leger winner Search For A Song will be the star attraction, under top-weight, in the Group 3 Munster Oaks, when she’ll bid to bounce back from her comeback effort in the Mooresbridge (Group 2) at the Curragh. She led early in the straight before fading to finish sixth behind Leo De Fury.

She’ll be tough to beat if reproducing the form that saw her win the Galtres in York before turning over Kew Gardens in the Leger in September.

But, although helped by a first-time hood, she might struggle to concede 17lb to the Ballydoyle three-year-old Snow, winner of a Curragh maiden before going down by a halflength to One Voice in the Blue Wind at Leopardstown.

The Willie Mullins-trained True Self, a winner at Flemington in Australia last November on her world tour, shaped with promise behind Magical in a Group 1 at the Curragh last week and shouldn’t be discounted.

It’s disappointing that only four will contest the Group 3 Marble Hill 2-Y-0 Stakes.

But Aidan O’brien’s Military Style, for whom the penny dropped late when swooping to beat Eastern Voice on his debut at Naas, looks the horse to beat.

Beaten favourite but a little unlucky on his Irish debut in the Ragusa at the Curragh, the Joseph O’brien-trained top-weight Verimli appeals in the finale.