IT’S some Darley July Cup today, the Commonwealth Cup 1-2 versus the Diamond Jubilee 1-2-3, the best of the three-year-old sprinters versus the best of the older sprinters. You could have asked for Battaash and Marsha and Lady Aurelia as well, but they are really five-furlong horses, and that would just be greedy anyway.

The three-year-olds are the exciting ones, the could-be-anything ones, and it will be fascinating to see how Caravaggio will fare against his elders. It will also be fascinating to see how Aidan O’Brien’s horse will fare against Harry Angel over the six furlongs of the July Course, significantly easier than Ascot’s stiff six furlongs over which he beat the Godolphin horse in the aforementioned Commonwealth Cup.