'She can take her chance' - Alan Sweetman has two fancies at Leopardstown

Sounds Of Heaven, a Kingman filly out of a Galileo mare with a superb pedigree, can get off the mark for Jessica Harrington on her second start.

The form of the Gowran Park race, in which she was a staying-on fourth on her debut, is working out well. The Joseph O'Brien-trained runner-up Lumiere Rock turned the tables on the winner when landing the Group 3 Staffordstown Stud Stakes at the Curragh, while third-placed Delightful finished second to the promising Harrington-trained fillly Foniska at Thurles.

The Gowran maiden looked stronger than the Dundalk event in which Aidan O'Brien's Galileo filly Starry Eyed finished third on her debut. The Ballydoyle juveniles are enjoying a good run in maidens as the season draws to a close, and she is an obvious candidate for improvement.

However, Harrington's filly, who has a close pedigree to a number of O'Brien-trained stars, can take her chance.

Teed Up
Leopardstown 5.30
2pts win

Grand National-winning trainer Emmet Mullins can add a premier handicap win on the Flat to his growing list of achievements, courtesy of Teed Up in the Leopardstown October Handicap.

A winner in three of his six races for Ken Condon as a three-year-old in 2020, Teed Up flopped on his two Flat starts as a four-year-old last season, including when he was a bitterly disappointing favourite in the Irish Lincolnshire.

After joining Mullins, he initially struggled to make an impression over hurdles and was given a break after a dismal effort in his first handicap at Cork in March. Returning to action at the Galway festival, his fortunes were transformed, backing up a second-placed finish behind useful mare Sit Down Lucy with an emphatic win in a lesser race only two days later.

As a result of his loss of form for Condon at four, he gets the chance to run off a mark 8lb lower than the career-high he achieved after winning at Galway towards the end of the 2020 campaign.

Though he has never gone beyond 1m1f on the Flat, any horse who can win over the extended mile at Galway on heavy ground has prospects of staying a good bit further, and his pedigree offers encouragement.

His dam Dibiya, a daughter of stamina-influence Caerleon, won over 1m6f at Galway and has produced a host of winners including Dirar, who captured the Ebor for Gordon Elliott, and Dibayani, a 1m3f course Listed winner for Michael Halford before export.