AT Goodwood, John Gosden’s 6/4 favourite Remote failed to overcome an absence of nearly two years in the Listed 888sport Festival Stakes over 10 furlongs. He dropped out in the closing stages and it was left to David Simcock’s The Corsican (7/2) to stay on strongly for Jim Crowley and beat Educate by two lengths.

There were too many disappointments to go overboard with compliments but The Corsican is progressive and holds entries in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes and the Hardwicke at Royal Ascot.