Every option available to the Irish Guineas winner Homeless Songs

Dermot Weld knows the traits of Homeless Songs better than anyone, given he has been training generations of her relatives from the Moyglare Stud Farm production line.

In the immediate aftermath of the filly’s stunning success in the Tattersalls Irish 1,000 Guineas, he spoke of her preternatural speed and pinpointed the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot as the next logical step.

"It was only a question [for] this filly of whether she stayed a mile," Weld told Racing TV before adding: "She’s got the pace to win at Group 1 level over six furlongs."

View Homeless Songs winning at the Curragh here

Becoming a champion miler or sprinter looks quite realistic in terms of Weld’s instincts from what he has seen at home and in the way she cruised into contention at the Curragh and ultimately demolished the Newmarket Guineas third Tuesday by five and a half lengths.

In terms of pedigree, Homeless Songs could just about be whatever he wants her to be, as she is certainly no precision-bred speedball.

Her sire Frankel has earned his laurels from progeny excelling at a mile or more, with signature performers such as Adayar, Cracksman and Hurricane Lane completing their missions at middle-distances.

Weld actually ran Homeless Songs’ dam, Dubawi mare Joailliere, to little effect in the Irish 1,000 of 2015 and found she fared best at seven furlongs; she signed off her career by winning a Listed event in Germany.

The Frankel-Dubawi cross is already responsible for Derby and King George winner Adayar and Joailliere’s only previous foal, by Siyouni, is ten-furlong Listed scorer Reve De Vol. The dam’s Dansili half-sister, Carla Bianca, was very consistent at Pattern level for Weld and Moyglare at around nine furlongs.

Smart stayer Profound Beauty is a half-sister of Homeless Songs's grand-damCredit: Patrick McCann

The theme of Weld’s Rosewell House and the Haefner family’s black, white and red silks track all the way down Homeless Songs’s page. Standing out under the third dam is Profound Beauty, who was second in an Irish Leger and ran in two Melbourne Cups.

One step further back in the family tree comes In Anticipation, who was by Sadler’s Wells and stayed a trip in a brief career with Weld in the early 90s. She bred a Ribblesdale scorer in Irresistible Jewel, who in turn not only a delivered a winner of the same Royal Ascot Group 2, Princess Highway, but a further Irish Leger hero in Royal Diamond.

While this is a filly who seems to have needed plenty of her trainer's renowned patience, Weld added that he thought there was "every chance" Homeless Songs might still be with him in another year. As she even has an entry in the Irish Oaks, he has the time to experiment.

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