Horse Opera are a four-piece band from Bolton, Lancashire. They play dark Americana and murder ballads, taking influence from The Beatles, Tom Waits, Nick Cave and the outlaw country movement.

Godolphin's three-year-old colt got off the mark in the same novice event won by last year's 2,000 Guineas winner Notable Speech in January under Billy Loughnane, and this time put in a polished ...