IT is wonderful to see fillies and mares being kept in training, though most are not still racing on the flat as six-year-olds. A welcome exception is the Deegan family’s Insinuendo, a relatively lightly-raced daughter of Gleneagles (Galileo), and as a winner at up to Group 2 level, I am sure the hope is that she can rise to the top and perhaps capture a Group/Grade 1.

Beaten less than a length by classic winner Mother Earth in last year’s Group 3 Lodge Park Stud Irish EBF Park Express Stakes, Insinuendo went one better this year and registered her fourth career success on just her 14th start. She has previously been victorious in the Group 2 Kilboy Estate Stakes at the Curragh and the Group 3 Blue Wind Stakes at Naas, and last year she produced a career best performance when she finished third to Emily Upjohn in the Group 1 British Champions Fillies and Mares Stakes at Ascot.