A RAIN-soaked Haydock on Saturday provided perfect ground for William Haggas’ Addeybb and Miss O Connor, who doubled up at short odds in the Rose of Lancaster Stakes and a listed race.

Addeybb’s race was well-run and produced a good time of 119, just one below his best. Although a good mile winner in 2018, Addeybb looks best at around 10 furlongs now, and especially when able to get rolling from some way out.

Miss O Connor, who started life in Ireland, dictated under a canny ride from Oisin Murphy and pulled out more after idling to beat Red Starlight; she can be rated 108 on overall time and sectionals combined.

Latrobe in-form

The Ballyroan Stakes at Leopardstown on Thursday went to the form horse in Latrobe, who defeated Guaranteed by three-quarters of a length, though in an overall time that equates to just a 72 timefigure and with late sectionals that were not especially fast. Latrobe had managed 115 as recently as Royal Ascot.

A strong pace rather than a steady one was the feature of the German-thoroughbred.com Sweet Solera Stakes at Newmarket on Saturday, and it proved just too much for Dark Lady, who weakened into third behind West End Girl having traded at 2/1 on in running.

The winner, a daughter of Golden Horn, can be rated no higher than 101 on this but is already exhibiting the kind of never say die attitude typical of so many from the Mark Johnston stable.

Tipperary’s Listed Coolmore Caravaggio Stakes on Sunday went the way of the Ger Lyons-trained Justifier, who beat Harpocrates with an 88 overall timefigure, bumped up to 102 on sectionals.

Good horses

The Shergar Cup at Ascot focuses on identifying good riders rather than good horses, but it may have managed the latter also given the style of the win of Victory Day under Jamie Spencer in the concluding Shergar Sprint.

Ascot’s in-house sectionals have the three-year-old running a swift 23.47s for the final two fulongs, meaning his useful 101 timefigure gets boosted to 111 on sectionals.

He can land an even bigger sprint handicap before going onto better things.

There were several other useful winning time performances scattered through the week, including those of Qaysar (106 timefigure at Newbury on the first of two wins in just a few days), one-time Derby fancy Dubai Warrior (101 at Kempton), Princes Des Sables (106 at Haydock), Kelly’s Dino (113 under top-weight at Newmarket), the inconsistent Three Saints Bay (106 at Thirsk) and another one time Derby hope Waldstern (108 in first-time visor at Newmarket).

That Princes Des Sables time was given as a course record for six furlongs but was immediately identified as erroneous by the eagle-eyed guys at Timeform. My video analysis puts it at 69.93s, not 69.04s as is still displayed in some places.