THERE were three listed contests in England last Saturday, the opening day of the British turf season, and of the three it is the one that was on the polytrack at Kempton that went to a horse winning his first blacktype event.

The John Gosden-trained Romsdal (by Halling) is four years old, he did not race as a juvenile, and he was among the leading three-year-olds of 2014.