Cursory Glance

As a breeding stallion he made an immediate impact by siring Funny Cide in his first crop of foals and went on to get numerous major winners including Drosselmeyer, Commentator, Flower Alley and Any Given Saturday.

[5] Cursory Glance made her debut in a maiden race over six furlongs on the synthetic polytrack surface at Kempton Park Racecourse on 21 May and started the 5/2 favourite against eight other two-year-old fillies.

After showing some reluctance to enter the starting stalls she settled in fourth place before making good progress on the outside, taking the lead inside the final furlong, and winning by a length from the Charlie Appleby-trained No Delusion.

[6] The filly was then stepped up in class and switched to turf for the Group 3 Albany Stakes at Royal Ascot on 20 June and started at odds of 14/1 in a 21-runner field.

The Marygate Stakes winner Patience Alexander started 9/2 joint-favourite alongside the Coolmore representative with the best-fancied of the other fillies being Elite Gardens (from the Godolphin stable and the American challenger Sunset Glow.

After racing at the rear of the nine-runner field she made headway in the last quarter mile but never looked likely to threaten the front-running Tiggy Wiggy and finished second, beaten one and a half lengths.

[8] Roger Varian, who had won the St Leger a day earlier with Kingston Hill said "Andrea felt she was running a bit lazy, and when he gave her a squeeze she took off.