Racing: Dermot Weld will ponder a number of future options for Nightime after the filly gave him a "special" win in the Boylesports Irish 1000 Guineas.
The Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot, the Irish Oaks and Pretty Polly Stakes will all come under the microscope as the trainer digests her demolition job at the Curragh yesterday.
Nightime was giving Weld and his mother Marguerite the thrill of a lifetime when charging home for a scintillating six-length success over 50-1 outsider Ardbrae Lady.
The Aidan O'Brien-trained pair of Queen Cleopatra and Race For The Stars, the mount of Kieren Fallon, finished third and fourth respectively.
Weld was understandably in good spirits after netting the first prize, with the home-bred winner carrying the colours of his mother, who led the last month's Cork maiden victor back into the enclosures.
"It is a very special day for me - I thought that when Grey Swallow won the Derby that was the best day's racing of my life but this certainly equals it," said Weld.
"My mother has always believed in the filly. I wanted to sell her as a yearling but she wouldn't let me as she thought she was special, and she has been proven right. She is in her 90th year this year and this is lovely for her. We also have the dam, and my mother only has six mares, but has a pretty good strike-rate with those six.
"I entered her in the Coronation Stakes a while ago, which shows the regard in which I have held her. I will look at that race but her inexperience might put me off - she is very immature so we might go to the Irish Oaks instead.
"This is only her third race and the Pretty Polly could be another option, but today was the day."
Pat Smullen - whose wife Frances Crowley won the race 12 months ago with Saoire - produced Nightime full of running after the field had tacked over to the stands side in the testing conditions and she readily pulled clear when asked for her effort.
The 29-year-old jockey said: "I couldn't believe how easily she was going during the race and how easily she won.
"They went a generous pace and she is a mile-and-a-quarter filly so we could have made it, but the fact Confidential Lady led was ideal. I could have eased her down when I looked round but it is not worth doing that in races like the
Guineas. It was just an unbelievable display."
Confidential Lady, runner-up in the Newmarket Guineas, was one of a four-strong British raiding party and the decision to sit handy in the soft ground looked a wise one as her rivals started to toil and Mark Prescott's charge bowled along in front.
But her stride shortened inside the final furlong and a half and she was a well-beaten sixth, while Richard Hannon's Nasheej, Stan Moore's Dont Dili Dali and the Barry Hills-trained Short Dance never threatened to figure.