SO Winter is this year’s Minding. The similarities are uncanny. Both trained by Aidan O’Brien, both ridden latterly by Ryan Moore, both by Galileo, one out of a Danehill Dancer mare, the other out of a mare who is by a son of Danehill Dancer. Both superstars at three.

Minding was beaten by Ballydoyle in the Debutante Stakes as a juvenile, and she was only fourth in the betting behind her stable companion in the Moyglare Stud Stakes, but she won that well under Seamie Heffernan, beating said stable companion by a cosy three parts of a length. Then she won the Fillies’ Mile at Newmarket, and she was the winter rage for the Guineas.