Highland Avenue (IRE)

dam 6f-1m winner (inc 2yo Group 1; RPR 114); finished a neck second in 7f novice stakes at Kempton in December 2020; won at the same course (1m) when next seen in January 2021 and followed up over same C&D in early March; switched to turf in April and was just as impressive, winning the Listed Feilden Stakes (9f) at Newmarket; close second in Heron Stakes over 1m at Sandown in May (conceded 3lb to winner) and respectable sixth in Group 1 St James's Palace Stakes next time; not disgraced when fourth in a French Group 2 in August but didn't follow that up in a Group 3 when coming in last; equally modest effort when when held in Group 2 over 1m1f at Meydan in January 2022 and then a Group 1; third of five behind Adayar in Group 3 over 10f at Newmarket in May and then second in another Group 3 at Epsom down to 1m 113yds; also ran well when fourth of sixteen in Listed Wolferton Stakes (1m2f) at Royal Ascot before filling the same position in a Listed event at Newbury; won for first time in over two years when taking Group 3 Darley Stakes at Newmarket (soft) in October but comfortably held in the Group 2 Bahrain International Trophy and in three Group races at Meydan after that; fair third in Group 3 Diomed Stakes when returned to UK in early June.