IT takes something special to eclipse a good winner of the world’s oldest classic, the winner of the Irish Champion Stakes, and the winners of numerous other high profile Group races in the past week, but the two-year-old Pinatubo managed to do just that.

He is not just any old two-year-old, on that we can surely all agree. He is unbeaten, he is getting better with each run, and his win in the Group 1 Goffs Vincent O’Brien National Stakes by nine lengths from two Group 2 winners was simply sensational.