BEFORE racing at the weekend, there was every chance that Juddmonte might have welcomed three Group 1 winners, and all in races sponsored by Tattersalls where they are major vendors, and buyers of stock on occasions. According to the Tattersalls website, since 1998 they have sold over 2,900 lots for more than 110,000,000gns, while since 2006 their selective buying has seen them sign for 46 lots costing almost 22,000,000gns.

When the weekend racing was over, Juddmonte had taken one of the three Group 1s, the Irish 2000 Guineas with Field Of Gold who beat another runner in their silks, Cosmic Year, into second, seen their Group 1-winning filly Kalpana make a most satisfactory return to racing when third in the Tattersalls Gold Cup, but Swelter was no match on this occasion for Lake Victoria and company in the Irish 1000 Guineas. Inexperience may have been a large factor in the case of Swelter.