GARY Coffey gave me a guided tour recently of Newsells Park Stud and among the highlights of the visit was the viewing of their two stallions, Nathaniel (Galileo) and Equiano (Acclamation). Both were in excellent fettle after busy seasons and my visit was days before Enable went to Ascot and added further glory to an already stellar season with victory in the Group 1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.

Enable is the outstanding performer to date for Nathaniel and she is from the first crop of this excellent racehorse. Nathaniel didn’t win at two, once having to settle for second behind Frankel (what a maiden that was), while his three-year-old season yielded three wins, headlined by his defeat of Workforce and St Nicholas Abbey in the Group 1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes,