• Chrysalis Records founder sees easy Hardwicke Stakes victory
  • ‘A Royal Ascot winner – I have died and gone to heaven’

Wonderful Tonight went to post for the Hardwicke Stakes here on Saturday as a proven talent in races against her own sex and returned as a legitimate contender to take on all-comers in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in October, thanks to a five-second burst of speed inside the final quarter-mile which startled even William Buick, her jockey. “She really took me by surprise when she quickened up,” Buick said afterwards. “She’s a very, very classy filly.”

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