SAXON Warrior was very good in winning the 2000 Guineas on Saturday. He only won by a length and a half, and the time was not spectacular but there was much more to the performance than the winning margin and the time.

There was the visual impression for starters. Even if you weren’t watching him from the start through the race, you can watch him from the start through the replay. He wasn’t that quickly away, he was far enough back early on, but he moved through his race easily at one-mile classic pace, he was able to move up nicely, apparently relatively effortlessly, just behind the leaders.