FILLIES with classic aspirations were making their mark in Ireland and France at the weekend, and both are bred in the purple.

On the home front it was the Moyglare Stud-bred and owned Homeless Songs who was making her case by winning the Group 3 Ballylinch Stud-sponsored 1000 Guineas Trial Stakes at Leopardstown by a length from last year’s Group 2 winner and Group 1 runner-up Agartha. Homeless Songs is a daughter of the champion sire Frankel (Galileo) and the second stakes winner in as many foals for the Dubawi (Dubai Millennium) mare Joailliere.