THE last Goodwood Cup winner to attempt to follow up in the St Leger? Stradivarius. Beat his elders at Goodwood in 2017, getting the 13lb age allowance, and ran well in the Leger but just came up short, rallying on the inside but ultimately finishing a half a length behind the Irish Derby winner Capri, and a short-head behind the subsequent Prince of Wales’s Stakes winner Crystal Ocean.

He was a length and a half in front of subsequent Melbourne Cup winner Rekindling too, in one of the hottest renewals of the oldest classic run in years.