It is not often the next time the first two home from the Derby meet is in a Group 2, but that is the situation in the Sky Bet Great Voltigeur Stakes at York on Wednesday for Christmas Day and Maltese Cross.

Perhaps because he was not the choice of Ryan Moore at Epsom, Christmas Day does not seem to have been placed on the same sort of pedestal as most Derby winners and he did meet with defeat to stablemate Benvenuto Cellini in the Irish version.