She was sent into training with Joseph Patrick O'Brien at Owning Hill, County Kilkenny and raced in the ownership of the Coolmore partners Derrick Smith, Michael Tabor and Susan Magnier in association with Georg von Opel.
[3] Above The Curve began her track career in a maiden race over one mile on good ground on 16 October at Leopardstown Racecourse when she was ridden by Shane Crosse and started at odds of 18/1 in a fifteen-runner field.
[4] On her first run as a three-year-old Above The Curve was again ridden by Crosse when she started 6/5 favourite for a maiden over ten furlongs at Leopardstown on 6 April and recorded her first success as she took the lead a furlong out and won "readily" by two and three quarter lengths from Thoughts of June (trained by Joseph Patrick O'Brien's father Aidan) despite hanging to the left in the closing stages.
She started favourite but despite making steady progress over the last three furlongs she failed to catch her old rival Thoughts of June and was beaten a neck into second place.
[7] At Longchamp Racecourse on 29 May Above The Curve, with Ryan Moore in the saddle, started the 1.4/1 favourite for the Group 1 Prix Saint-Alary over 2000 metres.