TWO of the four Group 1 winners at last Sunday’s Hong Kong International day were foaled in Ireland, and therefore can be described as Irish-breds. However, no doubt the Wertheimer brothers would argue that while Sosie was indeed foaled here, they would consider her a ‘French-bred’, in spirit at least.

That apart, there was one true Irish-bred, and this is Romantic Warrior (Acclamation) – the world’s leading money winner with more than £24 million banked, and the seven-year-old is showing no sign that age is getting to him.