WHAT did Wathnan Racing pay for Fallen Angel (Too Darn Hot) a year ago when they acquired the classic winner from Clipper Logistics? We will perhaps never know, but it is odds-on to have been a seven-figure sum.

Successful in the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes at two, and adding the Group 1 Tattersalls Irish 1000 Guineas last year, she was bought in time to run in the Group 1 Matron Stakes at Leopardstown, her first start after her Curragh classic win, and she finished a creditable length second to Porta Fortuna. Fourth when favourite for her three-year-old swansong in the Group 1 Prix de l’Opera, Fallen Angel made her reappearance this year in the Lockinge Stakes, finishing sixth, and was third at Royal Ascot in a Group 2 behind Crimson Advocate and Cinderella’s Dream.