GIVEN that the Enable ball in the Will-She-Won’t-She roulette wheel landed on Will She (she will), it was inevitable that the talk would be of fillies’ record in this afternoon’s King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes. (Still missing the diamond?)

At first glance, it looks positive, with Taghrooda winning the race in 2014 and Danedream winning it in 2012. That’s two of the last five renewals that have been won by fillies, one of them, the former, like Enable, a three-year-old filly. And it is no negative that the same Taghrooda was trained by Enable’s trainer John Gosden.

But it gets worrying when you start to delve a little deeper. The last filly before Danedream? Time Charter in 1983. That’s 29 years without a female winner. Even more concerning, the three-year-old filly before Taghrooda? Pawneese in 1976. That’s even more years without a three-year-old female winner.

When we remember the great King Georges of the past, we remember the great male battles: Galileo and Fantastic Light, Swain and Pilsudski and Helissio and Singspiel, Belmez and Old Vic and, of course, the king of them all, Grundy and Bustino. It is not really a race that ignites memories of great female triumphs. Time Charter won a cracking renewal in 1983, when she had Sun Princess and Caerleon behind her, but that is 34 years ago.

Since Time Charter’s victory and Sun Princess’ defeat, the erstwhile unbeaten Oh So Sharp was beaten in the King George, User Friendly was beaten, Eswarah was beaten, Look Here was beaten.

On the positive side, only five fillies have run in the race in the last decade, and two of them have won it, and Enable does look like an exceptional filly who gets the age as well as the fillies’ allowance today. But she is short, and it’s not going to be easy for her, just two weeks after her Irish Oaks victory in what looks like a vintage renewal.