YOU have to feel for Sea Of Class and for William Haggas and James Doyle. All the planning and all the preparation and, from stall 15, she comes up a short-neck short.

Sea Of Class is a hold-up filly, she had won her previous four races with hold-up rides, and she was drawn in stall 15. James Doyle had no option but to hold her up. Especially when you were almost guaranteed that there was going to be a fast pace on.