REMEMBER in 2001, when Castle Gandolfo was sent off at odds-on for the Vertem Futurity Trophy, the Racing Post Trophy as it was then, and his lesser-fancied stable companion High Chaparral beat him by three parts of a length?

Of course, we didn’t know then the peaks that High Chaparral would scale. That was Aidan O’Brien’s third Futurity Trophy, and you could have been forgiven for thinking that it might develop into a thing with the race: lesser-fancied Ballydoyle horse beating better-fancied stable companion.