Bow Echo enters the winner’s enclosure after the 2026 Sussex Stakes. Photo: Dan Abraham/focusonracing.comBow Echo follows Frankel with a Sussex success, the last leg in a trio of top prizes. A beaming Billy Loughnane (#65 from #63 jockey as it stands) brought Bow Echo to victory in Goodwood’s day two (and whole festival) feature, allowing his mount to step forward as the first horse since Frankel to gather success in the Group 1 2,000 Guineas, Group 1 St James’s Palace Stakes and Group 1 Sussex Stakes in the same season. Frankel, who ticked off those three races in 2011 (and won another Sussex Stakes for good measure a year later), is nowadays our #2 turf sire, one place ahead of Bow Echo’s father, #3 turf sire Night Of Thunder. After parading Bow Echo before a cheering crowd, Loughnane told ITV’s Sally Ann Grassick that his mount “just keeps getting better and better.”