IF Mark Johnston’s sixth Princess of Wales’s Stakes win was impressive, then Richard Hannon deserves praise for getting his name on the July Stakes roll of honour for the ninth time, even if six of those wins – stretching back to Rock City’s triumph in 1989 – are credited to Hannon senior.

This time it was 15/2 chance Lusail (a son of Hannon’s 2016 hero Mehmas) who upheld the family tradition with success in the Group 2 event.