IT used to be the case that it was very difficult to win the Beverley Bullet from a wide draw. From 2008 to 2017 inclusive, nine of the winners were drawn in the lowest four stalls.

So, in those 10 renewals, the 2011 winner Tangerine Trees – who was so good, and who went into the race in such form, that he won the Prix de l’Abbaye just over a month later – was the only horse who was able to defy a draw outside the top four stalls.