SING WHEN YOU’RE WINNING

Sing Softly had no problem handling the testing conditions as she landed a Listed success in the Anne Brewster Memorial Loughbrown Stakes at the Curragh.

Colm O’Donoghue had the the Aidan O’Brien-trained filly in second place just behind the leader Tell the Wind in the early stages.

Hitting the front a furlong and a half out, she was not hard pressed to hold Defining Year by a length with Deire Na Sli third.

“She shows plenty of speed. I ran her today as I thought if she gets seven in that ground she’s likely to get a mile,” said O’Brien.

“We’ll look at the English or French Guineas for her. She wants good ground.”

Sing Softly was slashed to 20-1 from 50s by Victor chandler for the Qipco 1000 Guineas at Newmarket.

Glor Na Mara, third to Frankel in the Dewhurst Stakes, was a major disappointment, trailing in last.

Lolly For Dolly (9-2) just collared The Cheka in a tight finish to the Big Bad Bob Gladness Stakes to collect her second Group Three win over seven furlongs on this course this spring.

The Cheka was always prominent in the hands of Johnny Murtagh and Eve Johnson Houghton’s raider looked the likely winner when he took a narrow lead over a furlong out.

However, Wayne Lordan made his challenge late on the Tommy Stack-trained filly and she got up in the last few strides to snatch victory by a short head.

“She’s a tough filly. I think she’s better over a mile than seven and luckily today wasn’t six-and-a-half!” said Stack’s son and assistant, Fozzy.

“I think she could go for a race at Newmarket on (1000) Guineas day. There is a four-year-old fillies’ race (Dahlia Stakes) there over a mile and a furlong.”

Weld was thrilled with Unaccompanied, saying: “She’s a lovely, big genuine mare.

“She’ll go to Punchestown next providing the ground is not firm. She ran a super race at Cheltenham and it’s great to win a stakes race with her.

“She’ll get the summer off after Punchestown and then come back as a dual-purpose mare. We’ll be looking at races over 10 furlongs and a mile and a half on the Flat.

“She’s got a very big future over jumps.”