Snow forecast to be seen at the Curragh next
Exciting Donnacha O’Brien filly is bred in the purple.
Falling Snow will step up in grade on her next start, but that could be her final action of the year, with Donnacha O’Brien keen to take a steady approach with the exciting filly this year. A daughter of Justify out of dual Guineas, Royal Ascot and Nassau Stakes scorer Winter, Falling Snow comes from a regal bloodline and shaped like she could possess plenty of her parent’s class when striking on debut at the Curragh. She professionally accounted for Aidan O’Brien’s Ballet Slippers on that occasion and is now in line for a return to the Kildare venue for the Weld Park Stakes at the end of the month, as her handler tests her ability in Group Three company.“She’s in good form and she’s a big, tall girl who still needs to fill her frame a little bit,” he said. “We’re just taking it slowly, she had an easy week after winning her maiden, and I’m hoping to take her to the Curragh for a seven-furlong Group Three. “My plan has been to give her two runs this year then leave her off. If she won that race well she is in the Fillies’ Mile and that is something we could look at, but the plan all along has been to just give her two runs. She won’t be busy for the rest of the year anyway.”
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