SIX wins in seven starts, and earnings to date of more than $700,000. War Like Goddess is a four-year-old daughter of Calumet Farm’s English Channel (Smart Strike), the champion grass horse in the USA after he won the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Turf at Monmouth Park in a course record time for the 12-furlong contest.

Maturing with age, English Channel won six times at Grade 1 level, and he twice set a course record when winning back-to-back runnings of the United Nations Stakes which is run over 11 furlongs. He went to stud with a bank balance of more than $5.2 million. He is an outstanding sire of turf runners, and yet you could have used him this year for $27,500, or about €23,000. What good value is that?