"She's Group One-placed and now she's won a Group Three, so really she's done everything she needs to for stud. But we now need to decide whether she can add any more if she stays in training next season, " said Given.

"I think the key to her is the ground as she has not really had it soft. She makes it so easy for the jockey and we need to think about things for the next couple of months."

Tom Eaves picked the perfect moment to cement his new partnership with trainer Bryan Smart by making all on the topically-named Captain Gerrard in the opener, the Willmott Dixon Cornwallis Stakes. The powerfully-built 9-4 favourite has already won twice at Listed level and could have some of the big sprints on his agenda next season after surging away with the five-furlong Group Three.

Nothing could quite get on terms and he came in a length and a half clear of Cute Ass.

"Tom came down here especially and has been riding out a lot for Bryan, so we have announced him as the stable jockey next year, " winning owner Reg Bond said. "He's a spot-on horse. He'll be put away now as Bryan has big plans for him next season."

A week after their defeat in the Rugby World Cup, there were at least a handful of cheerful Aussies after the ladbrokes. com Stakes.

Andrew Balding's Buccellati (10-1), owned by Australian Peter McMahon and ridden by fellow countryman Kerrin McEvoy, was completing a three-timer and could be heading Down Under himself before too long. It was a blanket finish to the valuable handicap with brave frontrunner Players Please just worn down close home by Buccellati and while St Savarin edged between the pair, they were all separated by a short head and a neck.

Godolphin representative Mariotto sadly went wrong in the home straight.

"My Australian trainer Peter Noonan also owns this horse and we come over here for the sales to buy stayers as they are too expensive in Australia, " McMahon said. "He's three and we will probably take him to Australia as a four-year-old. You never know, he might be a Melbourne Cup horse one day."

Ibn Khaldun justified favouritism at 4-7 when landing his hat-trick under a confident Frankie Dettori in the Deloitte Autumn Stakes.

Godolphin's son of Dubai Destination came from last to first with a weaving run to deprive eventual runner-up Redolent of the lead inside the distance.