Condon's Beauty Will Handle Ground Ken Condon believes testing ground will not hinder Elusive Beauty's bid for black type in the Group Three TRM Ballyogan Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday. Ken Condon's charge is well proven on soft and heavy ground and arrives on the back of a close fourth in a €50,000 handicap at the Kildare track, when she suffered a troubled passage. Condon said: "She was tight for room in the Curragh and that's the way she has to be ridden - for patience. She needs luck, but she ran very well. "She is very consistent and is a good, hardy, tough filly. There is a lot of rain forecast and she won't mind the ground. I'm happy with her. "She has a mark of 94 so will probably have to improve, but she has run well at the Curragh at this six-furlong trip before. "The aim is to get more black type as she has been third in a Group Three before. "There is a seven-furlong Listed race at Carlisle in July for three-year-old fillies' only which we don't have in Ireland. There is also a premier handicap over the Derby weekend." Joseph Murphy's Only Mine has been keeping very good company and found only a rejuvenated Gordon Lord Byron too good in a Group Two over course and distance last month. Peticoatgovernment has been sustaining her form well with two wins and two places in her last four handicaps and looks worth a try at this level. There are five British raiders in the field, including Hughie Morrison's Poet's Princess who was pipped by a head in the Betway Sprint Trophy Handicap at Newmarket. David Evans sends over Buying Trouble, who scored in Listed company at Haydock in May. Florida Times was placed for David O'Meara on soft ground in a Listed sprint at Newbury while Derby-winning rider Padraig Beggy gets the leg up on Wowcha for Malton-based John Quinn. Aidan O'Brien is triple handed with Music Box, who steps up in class from a maiden victory at Gowran Park, Smoulder and Alphabet. Kevin Prendergast's Penny Pepper and Robert Cowell's Evil Spell also go to post.
