IN the absence of Coventry winner Calyx, the season has been lacking a star juvenile colt. But this is the time of year that gives harvest to the arrival such a horse and for that reason it wasn’t a total surprise that in 10 minutes on Saturday afternoon, two emerged from the crowd.

Reporters couldn’t have been more than three paragraphs into the declaration of Round Tower Stakes winner Ten Sovereigns as the new 2000 Guineas favourite when Too Darn Hot streaked past the winning post to take the Solario Stakes at Sandown, causing a swift revision to copy.