ANOTHER Qatar Goodwood Festival, another Duel on the Downs. (If you still call it Glorious Goodwood, go to the back of the class. Seriously.) We have been here before.

Frankel v Canford Cliffs in 2011 was the original, it was the Duel in the Sun, the Thrilla in Manila, only it wasn’t either, in the sun or in Manila. It was the contest for which the phrase was coined: the three-year-old Frankel against the four-year-old Canford Cliffs, the 2010 Sussex Stakes winner. As things panned out, however, it wasn’t as much a duel as it was a Frankel soliloquy.