A DAY before Constitution River added another, the three-year-old Australian-bred Providence gave Wootton Bassett (Iffraaj) his first Group 1 winner from his first southern hemisphere-foaled crop, and his victory in the Queensland Derby was the colt’s first stakes win. For years to come this writer and many others will be regretting the sire’s untimely death.

Coolmore’s Wootton Bassett died while shuttling last September. With the ownership he has, it is odds-on that Providence will be given a chance at stud, just as northern hemisphere stallion masters are eager to get Wootton Bassett’s sons for sire duty in Europe.