HOW appropriate that on the same weekend as the Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe was run, that the 2009 winner Sea The Stars (Cape Cross) should have a Group 1 double.

Sea Silk Road’s win in France is covered on these pages, and she was preceded on to the roll of honour by Just Fine. That well-bred five-year-old sold last year at the Tattersalls Horses-In-Training Sale, and the following is an excerpt from my report at the time on the sale.