Benbatl (GB)

Group performer; quickly developed into a smart performer having not raced as 2yo in 2017, finishing second in Group 2 Dante before fifth in the Derby at Epsom; won Group 3 Hampton Court Stakes at Royal Ascot next time before creditable fifth in the King George back at Ascot in July; collected the Group 3 Singspiel Stakes on 4yo reappearance at Meydan in January 2018, and followed up in the Group 2 Al Rashidiya there in February; comfortably won the 1m1f Group 1 Dubai Turf on good later that month; below best in the Queen Anne at Royal Ascot but back on song returned to 1m2f in a Group 1 at Munich a month later; respectable fifth in the Juddmonte International at York in August before a game victory in the Group 1 Ladbrokes Stakes at Caulfield in October; not disgraced then when second to the mighty Winx when she won her fourth Cox Plate in a row; made all readily in Newmarket's 1m Group 2 Joel Stakes on good after an absence in September 2019, but down the field in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes; claimed easy success in the Group 2 Singspiel Stakes at Meydan in January on his first run of 2020, when heavy odds-on, and followed up on his dirt debut in the Group 2 Al Maktoum Challenge R2. Subsequently a very respectable third in valuable Saudi Cup at Riyadh in late February; returned 337 days later in Group 2 Celebration Mile at Goodwood, where he finished second, beaten a short head; went one better in Group 2 Joel Stakes at Newmarket in September; possibly did too much in front wehn ninth of ten in QEII Stakes at Ascot in October.