Thank you to the eagle-eyed Eric Ward who kindly pointed out that Aidan O’Brien did not saddle the 1-2-3 in the recent Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris, as I wrote in the breeding notes about Kew Gardens.

Apologies to Pia Brandt and Mark Johnston who trained the runner-up and third-placed runners for overlooking the fact that you did. Apart from offering a ‘senior moment’ as an excuse, it is certainly not a rarity for Ballydoyle runners to dominate!