Apart from Sonic Lady, Nureyev was the sire of the winners of at least forty-five Group One/Grade I including Peintre Celebre, Spinning World, Zilzal, Stravinsky and Miesque.
[8] She was traveling easily throughout the race and pulled clear of the field in the closing stages to win by three lengths from Lady Sophie, with the Cheveley Park Stakes winner Embla in fourth place.
Her reappearance was the front-page story on the first edition of the newly founded Racing Post: the rival Sporting Life's front page had featured Embla.
Swinburn opted to ride Sonic Lady in preference to her stable companion Maysoon who had won the Fred Darling Stakes at Newbury.
[13] At Royal Ascot in June Sonic Lady started the 8/15 favourite for the Coronation Stakes (then a Group Two race) and won impressively[13] by two length from Embla and Someone Special.
The filly started the 5/6 favourite ahead of the Queen Anne Stakes winner Pennine Walk and the Kentucky Derby runner-up Bold Arrangement.
She started the 8/5 favourite with her main opposition expected to come from the German colt Lirung, who had won the Prix Jacques Le Marois at Deauville Racecourse in August.
Sonic Lady moved easily into the lead 400 metres from the finish but had to be ridden out by Swinburn to win by a head from the French colt Thrill Show, with Lirung three lengths back in third place.
Her training in the early part of the year was disrupted by a foot injury and she appeared to be less than fully fit when she made her seasonal debut in the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot where she finished third, beaten a length and a head by the colts Then Again and Water Cay.
In the closing stages she held off the sustained challenge of the Aga Khan's filly Shaikiya to win by a head with Forest Flower ten and a half lengths back in fourth.
In the official International Classification she was given a rating of 127, a pound ahead of Darara and the Prix de Diane winner Lacovia, making her the top-rated European three-year-old filly.
She produced two Group race winners, both sired by Blushing Groom: Through her daughter Soninke, who was exported to Japan, she was also the great-grand-dam of Logi Universe, Deirdre, Northern River and Songline.