SHE might have become a little frustrating to follow through the height of the summer but So Wonderful is firmly back on track and Aidan O’Brien’s classic-placed charge picked up a precious black type triumph in the Listed M.D. O’Shea Vincent O’Brien Ruby Stakes.

After meeting with defeat in a couple of maidens, the Irish 1000 Guineas third won at the Curragh earlier this month and, under a ride of some mastery from Seamie Heffernan, she progressed to take this prize on less than ideal heavy ground. Heffernan was at pains to wait as long as he could before asking her to challenge and it was only inside the distance that he asked her for everything. When it mattered So Wonderful (11/2) was not found wanting and she led on the line to defeat the long absent Up Helly Aa, who ran so well, by a nose with Helvic Dream the same distance back in third.