NO filly had ever won the Group 3 Bonhams Thoroughbred Stakes but Mick Channon’s Malabar did the gentler sex proud by coming home three lengths clear of Kool Kompany in the hands of Silvestre de Sousa.

Godolphin’s Latharnach, the form choice on his second to Gleneagles at Royal Ascot, could finish only third at 6/4 favourite after drifting left and causing problems at one stage.