REY De Oro bounced back to his best form at the weekend and won the Group 1 Tokyo Yushun, the Japanese Derby. The thre-year-old son of King Kamehameha was unbeaten last season and finished fifth in the 2000 Guineas on his seasonal reappearance. He comes from a family that is well known worldwide and has Irish connections too.

His third dam Wind In Her Hair, a daughter of Alzao and out of a Busted half-sister to the great Height of Fashion, was bred in partnership by Robert Sangster’s Swettenham Stud and the Nagle’s Barronstown Stud. She was trained by John Hills and earned a deserved Group 1 success in Germany at four when successful in the Aral-Pokal. A year earlier she was runner-up in the Oaks at Epsom.