IF you decided to back Winx at 2/17 (it’s a price, honest) for the Group 1 Colgate Optic White George Main Stakes at Randwick last Saturday morning, and if you decided to get up to have an early breakfast and watch the race live, you may have been doubting the wisdom of both decisions – or at least of the former – as Hugh Bowman niggled her along, fully eight or nine lengths behind the leader, as they raced around the sweeping home turn. But that’s Winx for you. She picked up her rivals as she always does, she swept down the outside and she powered to victory.

That’s Winx’s racing style, and it only enhances her appeal. She is like an equine Scurlogue Champ, and she has now won her last 20 races. She is box office south of the equator but, such is her prolificacy and her magnetism, she is also drawing the northern hemisphere in.

Trainer Chris Waller said on Wednesday that he was considering a European campaign for the daughter of Street Cry, and that is really good news. It would be brilliant to see her up here, racing where the water swirls anti-clockwise. He stressed that, if it happens, it will be a campaign, not just a race, and that Royal Ascot will probably feature.

Two things that are not overly clear yet if she did happen to come up this direction: which race she would contest at Royal Ascot, and what other two races would complete her campaign. Winx has won at every distance from seven furlongs to a mile and three furlongs, so her options are plentiful. You assume that they would want to win Group 1 races with her up here, even though two of her last three wins were in Group 2s, so that means that her Royal Ascot options would be limited to the Queen Anne Stakes and the Prince of Wales’s Stakes.

After that, she could go Juddmonte International, Irish Champion Stakes, or Nassau Stakes, Matron Stakes. Or she could run in the Eclipse at Sandown or the Falmouth Stakes at Newmarket or the Pretty Polly Stakes at The Curragh on Irish Derby weekend. There are races here for her, and it would be great to see her race on Irish soil.

O’Brien on schedule in drive for 25

Capri’s win in the St Leger took Aidan O’Brien’s Group 1 tally for 2017 to 18, just seven short of Bobby Frankel’s world record of 25 Group/Grade 1 wins in a calendar year. At this stage in 2016, a year in which the champion trainer ended with 23, he had 16. He is bang on schedule.