LAST weekend saw Jessica Harrington’s Silence Please run a fine race to finish fourth to the John Gosden-trained Miss Yoda in the Group 1 Preis der Diana at Dusseldorf.

In what is proving to be yet another tremendous season for her trainer Silence Please was a first runner in Germany for Mrs Harrington and little wonder that she made the lengthy trek to Rhine-Ruhr region given that there was a first prize in excess of £250,000 on offer for the German Oaks. Last month the similarly well endowed Derby Italiano attracted several challengers from Britain with Mark Johnston’s King’s Caper just touched off by the chief home hope Tuscan Gaze.