WHAT huge sadness to learn of the death of Snowfall, and what an incredible outpouring of love for the filly there was this week on social media.

Her runaway victory in the Oaks at Epsom, augmented by wins in the Irish and Yorkshire equivalents, really captured people’s imagination. It can only be conjecture now what she might have achieved this year. The beautifully named daughter of Deep Impact (Sunday Silence) and Best In The World (Galileo) was likely to spearhead the Ballydoyle older horse division in 2022, and her value as a potential broodmare was incalculable.