[1] He is one of the best horses to date sired by the American stallion Exchange Rate, whose other progeny include the Apple Blossom Handicap winner Ermine.

[4] A month after his Doncaster win, Reckless Abandon was moved up in class to contest the Group Two Norfolk Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Mosse sent the colt into the lead from the start and after opening up a clear advantage he held on in the closing stages to win by three quarters of a lengths from George Vancouver.

[10] On his final appearance of the year, Reckless Abandon contested the Group One Middle Park Stakes at Newmarket Racecourse on 13 October.

He started 9/4 joint favourite alongside Moohaajim, a colt who had finished only fifth in the Prix Morny but who had since won the Mill Reef Stakes at Newbury.

[11] In the 2012 European Thoroughbred Racehorse Rankings, he was given a rating of 117, placing him in equal third, seven pounds below the top-rated Dawn Approach and level with Olympic Glory as the best British-trained two-year-old.

He led the field approaching the final furlong, but was overtaken in the closing stages and finished fifth of the nineteen runners, two lengths behind the winner Sole Power.

In September he started favourite for the Scarbrough Stakes at Doncaster and finished second of the eleven runners, beaten two and a quarter lengths by the three-year-old filly Mecca's Angel.