THERE were some good, and some not so good, efforts on the clock in the various other races during the period under review, but one in particular stands out as totally out of the ordinary. That was the win of Kachy in a minor event at Chester last Friday.

Given the other times on the card, and on the preceding two days, breaking 60.0s for the extended five furlongs around a bend seemed improbable, but Kachy managed it with 0.45s to spare, from the outermost stall, with a degree of comfort, and with nine lengths in hand over the smart Growl.

Conventional treatment of this time performance would have Kachy at 129 at least - the kind of figure that might not be bettered anywhere in an ordinary year - but I have backed down a little and put him on 126.

If you think that still suggests I have taken leave of my senses then it is worth noting that Timeform has Kachy on 124 here and 123 at Lingfield previously, those two figures well in advance of anything else recorded in Ireland and Britain so far in 2018.

Kachy appears to be Group 1-winning standard, at least under a certain set of circumstances. Unfortunately for his connections, races like the King’s Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot are not run around a bend. Nonetheless, the likes of Battaash, Lady Aurelia and Redkirk Warrior will need to be on their mettle next month with this fellow about.

Other group winners recently were Forest Ranger (111 timefigure), who won the Huxley Stakes at Chester in ready style with Eminent misfiring, Idaho (112), who gained his first win in nearly a year in the Ormonde Stakes at the same track, and Tomyris (111).

The last-named looked better than ever in landing the Chartwell Fillies’ Stakes by half a length from Lincoln Rocks, despite the latter getting the run of things to a degree up front. Total Performance Data sectionals have Tomyris running closing sectionals of 11.1s, 11.0s and 11.7s, which are pretty sharp and suggest Tomyris may be able to mix it with the cream of her sex this year.