WHILE Roly Poly has featured in these columns before, it is worth including her again after her latest Group 1 success in the Kingdom of Bahrain Sun Chariot Stakes at Newmarket. In the process she accorded trainer Aiden O’Brien with his 23rd Group or Grade 1 success of the year and the globe’s leading trainer is well on course to set a new world record for wins at this level in a calendar year.

This most recent win for Roly Poly meant that her dam Misty For Me was responsible for two Group 1 winners within a week. Seven days earlier her two-year-old son, and Roly Poly’s own-brother, U S Navy Flag (War Front) broke through at the highest level when he captured the Group 1 Juddmonte Middle Park Stakes. Furthermore, the first three offspring of this high-class daughter of Galileo (Sadler’s Wells) have won group races and Misty For Me is yet another exceptional mare among the broodmare band at Coolmore.