Silly Sea by Jack Tickle (Caterpillar Books; €10.66 HB) is a big aquatic book with a pop-up water-spouting whale, a pincer-snapping crab, a clapping seal and many more in-your-face marine creatures, each accompanied with a jaunty rhyme.

Seb Sanders took Windsor’s opening fixture of 2008 by storm, notching a magnificent near 535-1 treble highlighted by his success on By Command in the HSBC Investment Maiden Stakes.