WHILE Charlie Hills was celebrating the best day of his training career, John Gosden was left to mull over the defeat of his outstanding juveniles Too Darn Hot at the Curragh and Calyx, who was turned over at prohibitively short odds in the Group 2 Armstrong Aggregates Sandy Lane Stakes.

Calyx, sidelined by injury after winning the Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot, made an impressive return when landing the Group 3 Pavilion Stakes at Ascot on the first day of May, but he looked unwilling to let himself down fully at Haydock, with his trainer citing the ground as a possible reason.