MINDING (IRE) wrapped up a season of extraordinary achievement winning the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes on Champions Day. Her fifth major title of the season was delivered in the same no-nonsense manner as those that went before as she defeated the dual Goffs graduate Ribchester (IRE) by half a length.

Reports suggest that MINDING (IRE) has run her last race this year but fans of this great filly - and let's be honest, who wouldn't be a fan? - will be heartened by Aidan O'Brien's comments at Naas yesterday that there is a decent chance she will remain in training as four-year-old. Either way, seven career Group 1 victories in the locker by the end of a three-year-old season is remarkable; even the mighty Frankel had recorded 'only' six majors at the same age. The range of Group 1 winning distances from a mile to a mile-and-a-half, then back to ten furlongs and finally to a mile against older horses also takes some doing, if it is not unprecedented.

MINDING (IRE) is bred similarly to fellow multiple Group 1 winning stable companions this year, Alice Springs (IRE) and The Gurkha (IRE), being by Galileo (IRE) out of a Danehill Dancer (IRE) mare. In the case of MINDING (IRE), her dam is Lillie Langtry (IRE), winner of both the Coronation and Matron Stakes in 2010. The latter's first foal to race was KISSED BY ANGELS (IRE), a Group 3 winner last year, whilst her latest progeny on the track is the juvenile HOW (IRE).