SO Majestic Queen didn’t win the Group 3 Brownstown Stakes at Fairyhouse last Sunday but, in going down by a length and a half to the Ger Lyons-trained Ainippe, the Tracey Collins-trained mare still put up one of the best performances of her career.

There is something highly satisfying in the fact that, following her sale to Godolphin, the Kheleyf mare remained in training with Tracey Collins.

Collins knows her mare well, she has improved her from an opening mark of 80 to her current career-high mark of 106, taking in two Group 3 races along the way.

The fact that Majestic Queen remained on the Curragh is a function of the new Godolphin policy of using multiple trainers, of leaving horses where they are even after their purchase, and it is a policy that is reaping dividends both in Britain and in Ireland.

Four of the best Godolphin horses in training in Britain are in training outside of the two recognised Godolphin yards, with Richard Hannon (Night Of Thunder), Mark Johnston (Buratino) and John Gosden (Romsdal and Maverick Wave).

In 2015 to date, 36 individual horses have raced in the Godolphin colours in Ireland. Two of them were visitors from British yards, but that still leaves 34 that have raced for Irish trainers.

Jim Bolger and Michael Halford, of course, between them have been responsible for the majority of the Godolphin runners here, but Willie McCreery, John Oxx, Dermot Weld and now Tracey Collins have also saddled Godolphin runners. The blue silks (with navy seams) are a welcome addition to Irish racing’s kaleidoscope.