LAST weekend provided us with a tremendous feast of international racing, with Champions Weekend in Ireland, the final English classic of the year at Doncaster, and the outstanding meeting known as Arc trials day in Paris.

As one might expect at this time of the year, many of the major winners on those cards have already been reviewed here this season, but the Group 1 Coolmore Fastnet Rock Matron Stakes, over a mile at Leopardstown on Saturday, resulted in a popular win for a mare whose most recent success came at Newmarket 11 months before.