THE death last December of Coolmore’s Champs Elysees (Danehill) robbed the stallion ranks here of a successful flat stallion who had just enjoyed a great season, his daughter Billesdon Brook winning the Group 1 1000 Guineas, his son Harlem taking the Group 1 Australian Cup, Wonder Of Lips being placed in the Group 1 Herman Oaks, and Colonia winning at Grade 2 level in the USA.

Also in America, his daughter Elysea’s World transformed herself from being a €25,000 Arqana yearling purchase into a $500,000 sale at Keeneland last November, thanks to three Grade 3 victories in 2018. Now she has added a fourth, thanks to her win last weekend at Santa Anita in the Santa Ana Stakes, beating the Irish-bred Zaffinah (Casamento) in the process. It is surely a matter of time before she steps up to a Grade 2 success. The now six-year-old has won some £420,000.