Minding is the headline act on a cracking card at Naas on Monday.
Aidan O'Brien often runs his flagship older horse in the Camelot Irish EBF Mooresbridge Stakes, winning it in recent years with So You Think, Fame And Glory and Camelot.
He took it 12 months ago with subsequent Arc heroine Found and this time relies on another superstar filly, with Minding kept in training with the intention of adding to the seven Group One victories she already has on her CV.
The Prix Ganay had been mooted as a potential starting point but this Group Two would appear easier, with stablemate Johannes Vermeer, Jim Bolger's Moonlight Magic, Ger Lyons' admirable veteran Brendan Brackan and the Joseph O'Brien-trained Jaqen H'ghar taking her on.
The Canford Cliffs Irish EBF Athasi Stakes is the chief supporting race and sees Rehana attempting to force her way into Classic contention.
Mick Halford's filly was only beaten a length on her Leopardstown comeback and is still in the 1000 Guineas and Newmarket, as well as the Irish equivalent.
Diamond Fields claimed the scalp of Alice Springs in the Gladness Stakes, but the chief threat could be Dermot Weld's dual Listed scorer Rose De Pierre.
Peace Envoy heads the weights on his comeback in the Power Irish EBF Tetrarch Stakes, but the Anglesey Stakes winner comes up against some unexposed, race-fit rivals.
Son Of Rest and True Valour stamped their class on recent maidens and kept good company last year, as did Firey Speech and Radio Silence, and they also have runs under their belts in 2017.
O'Brien's Dundalk runner-up Dali is joined by unraced stablemate U S Navy Flag in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Race, and he starts well-related juvenile Actress off in the opening Coolmore No Nay Never Irish EBF Fillies Maiden at 1.40.
Lyons has the three at the top of the list for the Royal Ascot Trials Day May 21st Handicap, but last-start winners Windsor Beach, Aared, Admodum and Dasheen are among the opposition in a competitive finale.
