WHAT a job Archie Watson has done since he took over the training of Outbox in late 2020. The Godolphin-consigned then five-year-old was sent to the Tattersalls October Horses-In-Training Sale and sold, from the Crisford’s Gainsborough Stables, for just 16,000gns to Watson and Blandford Bloodstock.

At sale time Outbox had been off the track for more than a year. The son of Frankel (Galileo) won his only three starts at three, and headed into his four-year-old season unbeaten. While he failed to win in five starts that year, he showed a good level of form and was placed in listed races in Chantilly and Chester and in a couple of class two handicaps.