HEADMAN rocketed into contention for the Irish Champion Stakes with an exceptional performance to win the Group 2 €400,000 Prix Guillaume d’Ornano Haras du Logis Saint-Germain at Deauville on Thursday.

The above statement seems bizarre given that the son of Kingman only got up on the line to defeat Roman Candle by a head with Flop Shot, a horse he had trounced into a distant third in the Prix Eugene Adam seven weeks earlier, a mere half a length away in third.