IN January Godolphin added to their team with the acquisition of a half-share in the highly-rated juvenile of 2018, Persian King. A member of the first crop of Kingman (Invincible Spirit), the colt capped an impressive juvenile campaign for Andre Fabre when beating the subsequent Group 1 Vertem Futurity Trophy winner Magna Grecia in the Group 3 Autumn Stakes at Newmarket.

Now the colt has made the perfect start to his second season, waltzing to a five-length win in the Group 3 Prix de Fontainbleau at Longchamp. Connections are considering a tilt at the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket, bolstered by the fact that all three of Fabre’s Guineas winners on the Rowley Mile – Zafonic, Pennekamp and Miss France – won there as two-year-olds.