WHAT a joy to see Newspaperofrecord back where she belongs, in the winner’s circle following a Grade 1 race. The four-year-old daughter of Lope De Vega (Shamardal) added the Just A Game Stakes at Belmont Park to her juvenile success in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, run that year at Churchill Downs.

Newspaperofrecord went through her juvenile year unbeaten, capturing the Grade 2 Miss Grillo Stakes along the way. Her second season did not go according to plan, her curtailed racing year limited to three starts that yielded a pair of runner-up efforts in Grade 3 races. Now, at the age of four, she has won both her outings, starting with the Grade 3 Intercontinental Stakes, and her winnings now stand at €868,426. She has well repaid the 200,000gns she realised as a yearling at Tattersalls.