Rose takes the feature for Weld & Smullen

After winning the third with Ace Of Diamonds Pat Smullen and Dermot Weld quickly doubled up with Rose De Pierre in the feature Listed Heritage Stakes.

Having won on her first three starts last season, including the Listed Platinum Stakes at Cork, the daughter of Dubawi was then second in another Listed contest at Naas.

She was last seen finishing fifth in the Knockaire Stakes over the course in October, and having opened on-course at 7/2 this afternoon, she went off a well-supported 11/4 chance.

Settled in mid-division, the Moyglare Stud Farm owned bay travelled strongly in third with less than two furlongs to race.

She was pushed to the front with a furlong left to go, but was strongly pressed inside the final furlong by 16/1 chance Marshall Jennings with a diminishing head separating them at the line.

The runner-up was ridden by Colm O'Donoghue for Jessica Harrington, while the 9/4 favourite Onenightidreamed was another length and a quarter back in third under Chris Hayes for Fozzy Stack.

Dermot Weld said afterwards: "It was a good positive performance from a very consistent filly.

"She battled hard to win her stakes race in Cork and she did the same again there.

"She's a filly we hope to move on now. She's won twice at stakes level, and been multiple stakes placed, so next time we'll look to win a group race with her.

"Please God we'll have her for the year and I'll keep an open mind for different group races during the year but I just wanted to win another stakes with her today.

"I toyed with running in the group race at Naas last Sunday but the ground was just too heavy. She never wants it firm or never wants it heavy.

"It's lovely ground here today, much better ground than a lot of people expected coming. I'd say yielding is probably an accurate description of it and that's her ground.

"I had her in the Gladness on Sunday and the decision was whether to run in it or today and we went for today.

"Probably at the seven she was going easier than at the line so I'd say a mile is as far as she wants to go.

"She'll come on. All of mine at the moment are probably just a few weeks off. It's a long year as it runs to November this year."

The winner is out of Profound Beauty who won nine times for the same connections, winning three Group 3's, while she was beaten just three parts of a length into second in the Irish St Leger back in 2010.

Additional reporting by Gary Carson