Winning in such style at the biggest meeting of year was clearly a turning point in her career.

Favorites have won two of the four steeplechase events at the meeting, but the races have hardly been an esthetic success.

In 1993 Konchellah made an unexpected comeback when he won the B-race at the meeting in Zurich.

But a few weeks later he confirmed his talent by winning the 400m race at the prestigious meeting in Zurich.

The city won the rights to the event at the 120th meeting of the European Athletics Council in 2007.

Whalebone won an additional match race against the Lord Sackville's horse Pan at the same meeting.

His son Peter and grandson Brian also won prizes at the same meeting.

He also won the Newmarket St Leger at the same meeting in a walkover.

Yet last week he won with a resounding vote of the delegates at the annual meeting of the denomination, the nation's largest black church group.

In 1993 Skah won the 5000 m race at the prestigious meeting in Zurich.