THREE horses trained by Aidan O’Brien have won seven Group or Grade 1 races on the flat – Minding, Rock Of Gibraltar and Yeats. Four more garnered half a dozen such wins, Dylan Thomas, Giant’s Causeway, High Chaparral and St Nicholas Abbey.

Just five more have won five times at the highest level. Until last week the list was made up of Cape Blanco, Duke Of Marmalade, Fame And Glory and So You Think. The fifth member of this exclusive club is now Galileo’s son Highland Reel. He added the Investec Coronation Cup to a list that already included the Longines Breeders’ Cup Turf, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, Hong Kong Vase and the Secretariat Stakes. He has also been runner-up in the Arc and the French Derby and earned more than £5.5 million.