EZIYRA stayed on strongly to be an appropriate winner of the C.L. & M.F. Weld Park Stakes at the Curragh and head into winter quarters as a potential classic candidate.

Trained by Dermot Weld in whose late parents' memory the Group 3 race is run, the Aga Khan-owned filly kept with the bulk of the field who moved over to the near side and led about a furlong out under Pat Smullen.