HE will never quite scale the heights his early juvenile performances suggested but Sir Michael Stoute’s Expert Eye is still a very talented racehorse.

Everything about the Group 3 Sky Bet City Of York Stakes looked right for him and he duly justified even-money favouritism, coming home just over a length ahead of Tom Hogan’s remarkably durable 10-year-old Gordon Lord Byron with Arbalet third. Donjuan Triumphant made the early running but only on sufferance as Frankie Dettori moved Expert Eye closer along the rails. In front before the furlong marker, the winner showed his class but Gordon Lord Byron belied his 25/1 starting price and would have been even closer, but for his rider Billy Lee losing an iron.