IT CAN be a bit of a feast or a famine when it comes to Group and Grade 1 racing, and last weekend the sole top level contest in Europe was in Germany, where Rebel’s Romance recorded his sixth victory at that level. He has featured many times in this column.

Instead, I am going to go back to the previous weekend, where Ireland alone staged six Group 1 races, and therefore left little space to highlight some of the other major winners during that time. I want to focus on one horse, and his success in the Grade 1 Summer Stakes at Woodbine in Canada did not pass unnoticed, but perhaps did not get the attention it deserved.