WEDNESDAY’S top-class Assumption Day fixture at Deauville saw the resurrection of the career of Knight To Behold, many people’s idea of a leading classic contender before his 11th-place finish in both the English and Irish Derbys.

Given a clock-in-his-head front-running ride by Oisin Murphy, this Neil Jones-owned and -bred son of Sea The Stars never saw another rival in the hugely valuable Group 2 Prix Guillaume d’Ornano Haras du Logis Saint-Germain over a mile and a quarter.