That superstar is, understandably, the immediate answer that most will give if asked to name an undefeated Group 1 winner and classic star of 2013 but she is not the only filly who achieved that feat.

The Stefano Botti-trained Charity Line won the Group 2 Oaks d’Italia by four and a half lengths at San Siro in May, a race that her half-sister Cherry Collect (by Oratorio) won the previous season, and to that she added the Group 1 Premio Lydia Tesio at Capannelle, a race in which her sister had to settle for minor honours in 2012.