THE HIGH-class mare Profound Beauty can complete a hat-trick of victories in tonight’s Challenge Stakes at Leopardstown.

Dermot Weld’s runner takes on some decent opposition in the Listed event, including the ex-French trained Pointilliste and the progressive three-year-old Unity. However, it’s hard to see any of them managing to do what Profound Beauty managed on her last visit to Leopardstown when she out-gunned Age Of Aquarius in May’s Savel Beg Stakes.

She has run since in the Curragh Cup over the Derby weekend but it looked as if she didn't appreciate the fast conditions in the closing stages of the race won by Tactic. The recent wet weather rules out that problem today and Profound Beautycan land a rare pattern race hat-trick on route to possibly joining her stable companion Rite Of Passage in the Irish Leger later in the season.

This evening's Group Three feature is the Silver Flash Stakes in which Aidan O'Brien runs a trio of smart fillies including Johnny Murtagh's selection Together. The Galileo filly was impressive over the course and distance when breaking her maiden and is the selection over another course winner Kissable.

O'Brien's Sherwood Forestput in a decent debut behind his stable companion Rudolf Valentino over six furlongs at Naas but should relish the step up to a mile in the juvenile maiden.

Willie Mullins gives De Senectutea quick return after winning at Cork on Friday in the handicap hurdle at Killarney which winds up its July festival this afternoon. Jump racing's champion trainer also saddles an interesting starter in the 11 furlong maiden. Dazzle Dancerused to be with Dermot Weld and today teams up with Gary Carroll who enjoyed a memorable Ebor success for Mullins with Sesenta last summer.

Charter Party’s Gold Cup stolen

THE CHELTENHAM Gold Cup won by Charter Party in 1988 has been stolen. Nigel Twiston-Davies, who landed the 2010 Gold Cup with Imperial Commander, confirmed the trophy was stolen from owner Raymond Mould’s house.

Mould now has horses with Gloucestershire-based Twiston-Davies, who said: “I’m afraid it is Charter Party’s Gold Cup that has been stolen. I’ve been sitting with him at lunch today, they’ve broken into his house and stolen it. What happens is they make a new one every year and the owners get to keep that.” Charter Party was trained by the late David Nicholson and was ridden to Gold Cup success by Richard Dunwoody.