SPEAKING of King George stats, the age stat looks strong: eight four-year-old winners in the last 10 years, two three-year-olds, no five-year-olds, no six-year-olds. That makes things easy at first glance, with five of the 10 runners in today’s race aged five or six.

Add to that the fact that there hasn’t been a King George winner aged older than four since Daylami won a relatively weak renewal in 1999, beating Nedawi and Fruits Of Love into second and third places respectively, with Derby winner Oath under-performing behind them in what turned out to be the last race of his career.