NOT for the first time in recent seasons, Bill Farrell sprang a notable pattern-race surprise as he produced Xenobia in the form of her life to upstage Could It Be Love in the Group 3 Irish Stallion Farms EBF Brownstown Stakes.

This wasn’t at all as big a surprise as the one caused by the Farrell-trained Ramone when she landed the 2015 Park Express Stakes at odds of 100/1.