THE evening session then focused specifically on the NH filly, the panel comprising Jason Morris, director of racing HRI, the BHA’s Ruth Quinn, director of International racing and racing development, trainers Jessica Harrington and Willie Mullins, veterinary surgeor, breeder and pinhooker Walter Connors and Michael Hickey, of Sunnyhill Stud.

The future of the NH filly very much depends on her past, as Jessica Harrington pointed out: “If the mare has won I’d be more likely to buy a horse than one with a similar pedigree from a mare that hasn’t run.”