She went on to win the Nunthorpe against older horses.

Last week Tiggy Wiggy (38) won Newbury’s Super Sales Sprint by six lengths. She is also a two-year-old filly and hails from the same stable, though it’s now run by Richard Hannon junior.

If one photo-finish had gone her way she would also have won the National Stakes and the Queen Mary on her previous start. Now she may well go on to tackle the Nunthorpe or perhaps the Abbaye.

The way that Tiggy Wiggy ran away from her rivals in the closing stages was impressive, as was the time she clocked. It wasn’t quite fast enough to win a race like the Nunthorpe or the Abbaye, but neither were Lyric Fantasy’s performances.

It was the enormous weight for age and sex allowances that enabled her to do that, and it could be just the same with Tiggy Wiggy.