'Our most exciting horse in a long time' - plans set out for electrifying Baaeed

Baaeed was labelled “as exciting a horse as we have had at Shadwell for quite a long time” by the owner’s longstanding racing manager Angus Gold on Sunday with the dominant Goodwood winner likely to test his top-level credentials in the Group 1 Prix du Moulin next month.

The three-year-old took his unbeaten record to four with a six-and-a-half-length victory in the Group 3 Thoroughbred Stakes on Friday, earning a Racing Post Rating of 124+ in the process to place himself alongside 2,000 Guineas and St James’s Palace Stakes winner Poetic Flare as the leading miler of his age group.

Such was the dominance shown by Baaeed, it has been suggested that he could end the season as the top overall miler in Europe and Gold said he could understand why so many have been keen to talk up the colt’s prospects.