Lyric Fantasy may not have been the first juvenile to beat the older generation in the Nunthorpe - indeed Paris House had gone close just 12 months earlier. But she was the first two-year-old filly to do it and it was a career highlight for a filly who was quite simply head and shoulders above others of her generation.

It may seem folly now given how dominant she was in that season, but her trainer Richard Hannon’s main concern was if she would even stay five furlongs given how quick she was.

“She was tiny, but she was a very fast filly,” recalled Hannon.

“We knew right from the start how fast she was and I knew if she got the five furlongs she was going to be very good. That was the problem, we thought, but she got it all right!”

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