NAMED after a famous painter, Jan Brueghel was beaten on his reappearance this year, when second to Galen in the Group 3 Alleged Stakes. This was a first defeat for last year’s winner of the Group 1 St Leger at Doncaster. The four-year-old redeemed himself with a battling victory in the Group 1 Coronation Stakes at Epsom, the first of three wins in the feature races over the two days of that meeting for Ballydoyle.

Bred in Co Wicklow by David and Diane Nagle at their Barronstown Stud, Jan Brueghel became the 101st Group 1 winner for Galileo (Sadler’s Wells) when he recorded his classic success. Galileo died in the year of Jan Brueghel’s birth. Winner of five of his six starts and unraced at two, Jan Brueghel is the second classic winner for his dam, the Group 2-placed Devoted To You (Danehill Dance).