MANY may be surprised to learn that there is a listed race run at Carlisle, but the Eternal Stakes on Wednesday will live long in the memory for owner David Kelly and trainer Ken Condon. They won it with the three-year-old Elusive Beauty, bred by Peter McCutcheon, and she is the first of her dam Lost Icon’s seven winners to land a stakes race.

Bought for €27,000 at the Goffs Sportsman’s Sale in 2015, Elusive Beauty was group-placed at two and now becomes the first stakes winner, from the second crop, of the Irish National Stud’s Elusive Pimpernel. Standing for just €1,000, this son of Elusive Quality is closely related to Snow Fairy and Big Bad Bob and was a very smart juvenile.