Winning the Group 2 GAIN Railway Stakes by three lengths would be exciting enough for most people, for connections of winner Celeron, the performance felt extra special, as their thoughts were all firmly with the late John Fleming, who was part of the New Morning Syndicate before his tragic and untimely passing in April of this year.

Since then, his wife Marian had her heart lifted in early June when Celeron made a winning debut over Saturday’s course and distance, but things did not go according to plan at Royal Ascot, where Michael O’Callaghan’s colt finished 15th in the Windsor Castle Stakes.