BEFORE the Juddmonte International Channel 4’s Nick Luck proclaimed the race as the best race in the world, not based on the current renewal of the race, but on world ratings of its previous winners.

Although the Derby form has been upheld by Golden Horn, Jack Hobbs and Storm The Stars, are there grounds for putting the Nassau Stakes forward as one of the best of this year, and Legatissimo a candidate for top three-year-old?

The Juddmonte winner Arabian Queen finished a well beaten third while Jazzi Top was unlucky in fifth and looked a Group 1 filly when winning a Group 2 easily in France on Tuesday.

Lucida would have got closer to Amazing Maria with a clear run in the Falmouth Stakes and she didn’t get the run of the race in the Coronation Stakes either. She was unlucky both times.

In the 1000 Guineas however Legatissimo just looked the better filly. After Pleascach came back to form in the Yorkshire Oaks, all that talk of supplementing the fillies for the respective Derbies might not have been wide of the mark. Over 10 furlongs Legatissimo must be among the best three-year-olds of the season and the three-year-old fillies have suddenly gone centre stage.