< Profound Beauty continued her love affair with Leopardstown as she recorded her sixth win from eight starts at the Foxrock venue with an all-the-way success in the ITM/Springpaarden Fonds.Ballyroan Stakes.

Pat Smullen was in immediate command on Dermot Weld's 4-11 market leader, who was dropping back in distance in the mile-and-a-half Group Three contest.

With her rivals on the stretch some way out, she only had to be pushed clear to score by three lengths from Akzar

William Hill reacted with a 14-1 from 16-1 quote for the Melbourne Cup.

Weld said: "She did what we expected her to do, she's a very high-class filly.

"We'll see how she comes out of the race before we make any decisions. Her main options are the Yorkshire Oaks and the Irish St Leger."< Finicius (6-1) got his head in front for the first time since December 2008 with victory in the Dodder Handicap.

Hitting the front just inside the final furlong, the Eoin Griffin-trained six-year-old readily went clear under Johnny Murtagh for a one-and-a-quarter-length call over Dotada

Griffin said: "It has been a long time coming, he has had his fair share of wind problems in the past.

"It's not easy to find races for him with his rating. He has been running in Listed company and has been running well without winning.

"There is a Listed race in him some day. We were happy to win today and it's great for the owner Ray Stokes, who is a local man and it's his first winner here.

"He performs well around Dundalk and that'll be starting up soon, so we'll get a race up there."

Murtagh was earlier at his strongest on 4-5 favourite Alexander Pope to reel in the front-running A World Apart and claim the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden right on the line for Aidan O'Brien.

It was three for Murtagh when the O'Brien-trained Amber Grey (3-1) took the 'Alabama 3' Maiden.