Sajir

At five years old, Sajir has a career record that looks modest on paper — one win and a place from three races — but context is everything here. Winning 1 in every 3 races is a genuinely impressive ratio, and the fact that the single win came in a top-tier race tells you this is a horse built for the big occasions rather than the stepping stones. Fabre's yard has sent out three winners this season, and Sajir accounts for one of them, which gives you a sense of how significant that Newmarket success was for the team.

Having raced just yesterday, Sajir is very much a horse in the middle of his story. The Newmarket win remains his only victory so far, and it sets a high bar — wherever he goes next, that Class 1 performance will be the standard he is measured against. For any horse trained in France to travel across and beat the best in Britain at Newmarket, a track renowned for rewarding genuine talent, is the kind of result that tends to follow a horse around in the best possible way.