THE Group 3 Newmarket Academy Godolphin Beacon Project Cornwallis Stakes (to give it its full ceremonial title) has been a happy hunting ground for fillies, with Tim Easterby’s 10/1 shot Winter Power (Silvestre de Sousa) becoming the sixth of her sex to triumph in the past decade, and the second from her stable after Ponty Acclaim in 2011.

Winter Power was always better placed than favourite Method (Martyn Meade/Oisin Murphy), who was tackling five furlongs for the first time.,