AFTER a gap I have recently met Jeremy Hill on a couple of occasions and his name cropped up again when I was researching the pedigree of the recent impressive Killarney winner Johannes Vermeer. The two-year-old son of Galileo won in the style of a horse going places, and he has a name to match that hope.

Johannes Vermeer, a €300,000 Goffs Orby yearling, is the first foal of the Holy Roman Emperor mare Inca Princess. She also has a yearling full-sister to Sue Magnier’s winner.