DEATH and taxes no longer seem quite the certainties they once were, but you can still rely on Minding to give her running, whatever the distance, whatever the race set-up and whatever the opposition.

She was at it again at the Curragh on Sunday, this time against a quartet of smart older fillies in the mile and a quarter Sea The Stars Pretty Polly Stakes. She hammered them, winning by four and a half lengths and five from Bocca Baciata and Lucida.