VICTORIOUS by name and by nature. The two-year-old daughter of Wootton Bassett (Iffraaj) remains unbeaten after she won the Coolmore Stud-sponsored Group 3 Irish EBF Fillies Sprint Stakes at Naas, getting home cosily to add to an earlier success at the track in April.

Now it is all eye on the Albany Stakes at Royal Ascot, and who knows where after that. This Naas race has an enviable record for producing Group 1 fillies; in the past decade stars such as Alpha Centauri, Meditate, Porta Fortuna and Fairy Godmother have been in the winners’ circle. In the filly’s favour too is that she possesses an outstanding pedigree. She is now one of 57 group winners for her much-lamented sire, and joins Whirl, Al Riffa, Maranoa Charlie and more as progeny of his out of Galileo (Sadler’s Wells) mares.