THREE European Group 1 races at the weekend were won by the long odds-on City Of Troy (Justify), and two outsiders. The Coolmore/Ballydoyle winner of the Group 1 Eclipse Stakes has been a regular in these columns, so this time I will shine a light on Puchkine and Palladium.

I am sure there have been no end of enquiries about the whereabouts and contact details for Abraheem Mohamed Sultan. Why you might well ask? At last year’s Arqana February Sale, he paid €1,000 for Kovda (Sioux Nation), an unraced three-year-old. While her immediate pedigree was not out of the top drawer, she certainly had a paper value of more than the minimum bid.