PIVOTAL mares are prized, and this picture is of Dr Dean Harron’s colt from the first crop of triple Group 1-winning miler Circus Maximus (Galileo). He is a son of Ma Grande Corniche, a daughter of the former Cheveley Park Stud stalwart who died last November.

Circus Maximus had King Of Comedy and Too Darn Hot in arrears when he won the Group 1 St James’s Palace Stakes at three, later adding the Group 1 Prix du Moulin de Longchamp to his haul of victories. A year later he returned to Royal Ascot and claimed another Group 1, this time the Queen Anne Stakes.