IT’s either a feast or a famine so after a number of weeks when I couldn’t fit in all the locally-bred, owned, trained, ridden, whatever-connected winners, there is a sparcity of them for today’s column.

One spotted on the flat however was the McCracken Farms-bred Facteur Cheval who, on Tuesday at Saint-Cloud, landed a mile maiden on turf for unraced three-year-old colts and geldings by five lengths under Gerald Mosse.