IT was not surprising that Defoe was not disqualified and placed second behind Wall Of Fire after he had passed the post first in the Group 3 Geoffrey Freer Stakes at Newbury on Saturday.

Roger Varian’s horse did move over onto the stands rail, he did take Wall Of Fire’s ground just as Hugo Palmer’s horse and Josephine Gordon were building momentum. The best horse in the race probably won the race, they said, and they moved on.