He recorded his first success in a similar event at Gowran Park in September, leading from the start and coming home two and a half lengths clear of World War.

[6] On his final run of the year he was sent to France and moved up sharply in class for the Group 1 Critérium de Saint-Cloud on 30 October but made little impression and finished last of the thirteen runners.

Ridden by Lordan, Rekindling settled in fifth, made steady progress in the straight, and took the lead inside the final furlong to win by half a length from Douglas Macarthur.

On 16 September Rekindling was back in England for the St Leger Stakes at Doncaster Racecourse and finished fourth, two lengths behind the winner Capri.

Although he was still a three-year-old by Northern hemisphere reckoning he was officially a four-year-old in Australia, where horses ages advance by a year on 1 August rather than 1 January.

He produced a strong run on the outside, overtook Johannes Vermeer 50 metres from the finish and won by half a length, with Max Dynamite taking third to complete a 1-2-3 for Irish-trained horses.