GREAT credit to the connections of the Australian mare Asfoora (Flying Artie). Last year they won the first edition of the Group 1 King Charles III Stakes, the former King’s Stand Stakes, with her at Royal Ascot, and they doubled her tally of top-flight wins when she blitzed her way to an impressive victory in York’s Nunthorpe Stakes.

Incredibly, while she is a nine-time winner in her native country, her biggest successes there have been at Group 2 level, though she has been in the frame in a couple of Group 1 races. She has won a fine total of £765,000 in prize money down under, but her victories in England have been worth over £900,000.