This week Juddmonte Farms released details of some of their ‘star’ mating plans for 2018, and what mouth-watering reading it makes. The farm group is one of the leading breeders in the world and has been responsible to date for 106 individual Group or Grade 1 winners of 205 Group or Grade 1 races, including 25 classic winners. Many of these successes have been achieved by runners carrying Khalid Abdullah’s distinctive and very familiar colours of green, pink sash and cap, with white sleeves.

It was hugely appropriate that the landmark Group or Grade 1 win number 200 and classic winner number 25 came courtesy of a fourth generation Juddmonte homebred Enable (Nathaniel), who won the Epsom Oaks in 2017.