WHILE the world’s major breeders, with access to the world’s greatest stallions, have regular classic success, occasionally there is a bit of magic when a fairy-tale result emerges, giving hope to breeders at lower levels of the market.

Cachet is a perfect example. The daughter of Aclaim (Acclamation) and the Teofilo (Galileo) mare Poyle Sophie gave Harry Herbert’s Highclere Thoroughbred Racing their first British classic success on Sunday when she won the Group 1 Qipco 1000 Guineas – and this was a series of firsts. The first classic win in the first crop for her sire, the first classic victory for the breeder, Hyde Park Stud’s John Bourke, for her trainer George Boughey, and the first top-level winner in at least five generations of the female family.