YOU can be sure that sectional timing expert Simon Rowlands has more scientifically-produced sectionals elsewhere in these pages, but even a crude time assessment armed with a stopwatch and a video replay can give a rough estimate of the manner in which the Irish Champion Stakes was run.

There were three group races run on the outer track at Leopardstown on Saturday: the Group 1 Coolmore Fastnet Rock Matron Stakes and the Group 2 Clipper Logistics Boomerang Stakes as well as the Group 1 Qipco Champion Stakes.