PAT Dobbs, a fine jockey but an unlikely hero, stole a fraction of the limelight last Saturday with a superb double on Pether’s Moon, surprise winner of the Group 1 Investec Coronation Cup, and 20/1 chance Blue Surf in the same sponsors’ mile and a half handicap.

There were only four runners in the featured race for older horses, with Alain de Royer-Dupre’s filly Dolniya made 8/11 favourite ahead of old rival Flintshire, 7/4.