CONSISTENCY, durability and versatility often get overlooked in favour of raw talent, so it is good when they get rewarded, as was the case with Magical winning the QIPCO Champion Stakes at Ascot on Saturday.

Magical is not as good as Enable, having finished behind her five times out of five. But she is not far behind her, either, and she loses nothing to that great mare in terms of those other attributes, with her only unplaced effort of many in the last 12 months – a fifth in this year’s Arc – easily explained as she raced too close to a punishing pace that day.