The Joseph O’Brien trained Art Nouvelle scored at the second attempt at the Curragh today, winning the Irish Stallion Farms EBF (Fillies) Maiden under the trainer’s brother Donnacha O’Brien.

The O’Brien brothers were famously on the mark in the Group 1 Moyglare Stakes at the venue on September 11 with Intricately and today Art Nouvelle, a daughter of Art Connoisseur showed the benefit of a promising debut run at Naas, when beating Stormy Belle by a length and a half.

Following the race, trainer O’Brien stated “she ran well in Navan where she got a bit tired and she has stepped up well today. She seems to handle the ground okay and has plenty of pace and finished off the race well.

“I’d like to find a winners’ race for her but it may not be that easy to find one, and she could go to Dundalk.”

By Tom Weekes, quotes from Alan Magee