ANDREW Balding’s Sandrine (David Probert) was very good at six furlongs as a two-year-old and has been very good at a mile this year, but in winning the Group 2 World Pool Lennox Stakes at 12/1, she showed that she is exceptionally good at seven furlongs, a trip she was tackling for the first time.

Kirsten Rausing’s filly had run with credit in the best Group 1 races open to her over the longer trip, finishing a game third in the Falmouth on her most recent start, but she seemed to relish the faster pace of the Lennox, racing against colts and geldings for the first time.