1 Shergar Cup horses: There was plenty to take out of last Saturday’s Shergar Cup day at Ascot. For starters, with lots of jockeys riding unfamiliar horses at an unfamiliar track, with unfamiliar undulations and unfamiliar turns, sometimes over unfamiliar distances, it stands to reason that many horses would have been the recipients of rides that did not give them the best possible chance of attaining the best possible placing. If you can identify such horses, you may have identified an angle.

Debdebdeb and Big Thunder were the two to take out of the Stayers. Debdebdeb fell out of the gate. Yuichi Fukunaga actually did well to stay on board but his horse was really keen through the first mile. Stone last of the 10 runners turning for home, she picked up really well on the far side and finished best of all to take fourth place.