IT is probable that, as well as providing significant clues to next year’s 2000 Guineas, Newmarket on Saturday also presented serious pointers to some of the top three-year-old middle-distance races of 2019.

Kew Gardens won the opening race on the card last year, the Zetland Stakes, and Kew Gardens won the Queen’s Vase this year, as well as the Grand Prix de Paris, before going on to Doncaster and winning the St Leger.