GLORIOUS Journey is hopefully well named, and he started his career in the best possible way on the racecourse when he won the Margaret Giffen Memorial Novice Stakes at Newmarket on Saturday. In so doing he won a meagre £4,528 in prizemoney, added £7,500 from the Plus 10 Bonus, and netted £25,000 as part of the October Book 1 Bonus.

The total Glorious Journey won came to just over 1% of his purchase price when he was sold as a yearling. He was the joint highest-priced yearling sold in the world last year when he realised 2,600,000gns and was one of three sons of Dubawi to make 2,100,000 or more. He was bred by Philippa Cooper’s Normandie Stud and she consigned him to Tattersalls through Norris Bloodstock, the agents she will use again for her consignment this autumn.