The form of last season’s Jean-Luc Lagardere won by Karakontie has now been boosted in France, Spain and Britain following the smart run of Barley Mow (37) in the Listed International Trial at Lingfield on Saturday.

Barley Mow didn’t quite manage to win because he went rather wide around the tight home turn and had to try and catch a winner that had been allowed a pretty easy lead which enabled him to scoot the last three furlongs in 33.65 seconds.