ROLY Poly took trainer Aidan O'Brien to within two of Bobby Frankel's world record total for Group/Grade 1 wins in a single calendar year when beating 9/4 favourite Persuasive by one and a quarter lengths in the Kingdom of Bahrain Sun Chariot Stakes at Newmarket.

This one mile event provided the filly with her third top-level win of the year and comes one week after her two-year-old full-brother, U S Navy Flag, won the Group 1 Juddmonte Middle Park Stakes over six furlongs at the same venue.

O’Brien said afterwards: “I can’t tell you how delighted I am with her. It’s a big team effort from the lads and Ryan gave her a class ride. She’s a great filly with a great heart, and she’s tough. She’s incredibly bred and is out of a Galileo mare which makes her tough.”

Roly Poly may now go to the Breeders' Cup at Del Mar next month.

THE HORSE ALWAYS COMES FIRST

"I think so (go to Breeders' Cup), the lads (Coolomore) will decide what they want to do, but her and Rhododendron could be trained for the Filly And Mare race if that's what the lads want to do."

He added of being on the brink of reaching Frankel's record: "It would be incredible for everybody, but the horse always comes first. That's the important thing – the horse always comes first.

"After every race, the lads sit down and have a chat among themselves and see what race they want to pick, they have a big discussion with the people around them, make a target and we go with that.

"It's race to race, horse to horse, the horse always comes first and we're doing our best in every race, it's all we can do."

John Gosden said of Persuasive and Nathra: "They both ran superbly well. The winner on this ground was too good for us.

"With a bit more juice in the ground, both of our fillies would have troubled the winner. They have run second and third and I could not be more thrilled with them.

"They have run true and honest right to the end of the season. I think that will probably be it for both of them and the breeding sheds beckon."

Jimmy Fortune, riding in his final race, said: "It is a bit emotional, really. She [Nathra] is a very tough filly and could have done with a bit of juice in the ground, but she would have probably only been second, to be honest.

"It is a nice race to finish off in."