JOHN Gosden may have been out of luck in the big race, but he has once again unearthed a live St Leger candidate in the shape of the unbeaten Logician, who had been well placed to win three fairly uncompetitive events before this first try in pattern company in the Group 2 Sky Bet Great Voltigeur Stakes.

Khalid Abdullah’s grey with the raking stride has always promised to be a bit special, and the son of Frankel confirmed that impression with a victory which was visually more impressive than the one-and-three-quarter-length margin over runner-up Constantinople, Frankie Dettori reprising a now familiar role as big-race bane of Ryan Moore and Aidan O’Brien. The pair were a decisive seven lengths clear of the others, headed by Norway (Aidan/Donnacha O’Brien).