DID Eoghan O’Neill pick up the bargain of the sales season at Goffs last month? He paid €22,000 for a daughter of Cape Cross out of the Tagula mare Mathuna who at the time the catalogue went to press was a half-sister to two winners, the better of the pair being the listed juvenile winner Caledonian Spring, a son of Amadeus Wolf.

There is hardly a need surely to remind you what a great year Cape Cross is having. Golden Horn joins Sea The Stars and Ouija Board, the dam of Australia, as another exceptional performer on the track for the Darley veteran. He will have more chances of adding to his already stellar record for years to come.