“SHE’s like a Formula 1 car, she has so many gears and didn’t even get into fifth. She has a beautiful mind and when I stepped on the gas pedal off she went.”

These were the words of jockey Gary Stevens when he dismounted from Mae Never No after the two-year-old filly won her maiden at Belmont for trainer Wesley Ward and owner/breeder Ice Wine Stable. Thoughts now turn to a possible Royal Ascot challenge, something that would be the perfect advertisement for the Coolmore-based sire.