YOU can see Kynren going and winning the tote.co.uk Challenge Cup at Ascot again. David Barron’s horse hadn’t won in over two years before he won the race last year, and he hasn’t won again since. He hasn’t run over seven furlongs at Ascot since though, and he ran very well over six furlongs in the Ayr Gold Cup two weeks ago on his first run back after a wind operation. That said, he is 4lb higher now than he was last year, and he is short.

Kynren isn’t the only contender who is proven though on Ascot’s straight track, a track at which course form is more valuable than it is at most. There are many others, like Blue Mist, an impressive winner of the Moet & Chandon International Stakes over today’s course and distance on King George weekend. But that was on fast ground, he is 5lb higher today and he was well enough beaten when favourite for another handicap over this course and distance on good ground four weeks ago.