A YEAR ago Advertise (Showcasing) broke Aidan O’Brien’s stranglehold on the Group 1 Keeneland Phoenix Stakes when he won the first juvenile Group 1 of 2018 in Ireland. Last week he increased his Group 1 haul to three, adding the Prix Maurice de Gheest to an earlier success in the Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot.

Only once out of the first two when he was down the field in the 2000 Guineas, he has won five of his nine starts and his winnings now top £900,000. Martyn Meade trains the Phoenix Thoroughbred-owned colt who was bred by Cheveley Park Stud and sold through Jamie Railton as a yearling at Goffs UK to Dermot Farrington for £60,000.