FULL Mast (9-pace adjusted 29) was allowed to get away with setting a ludicrously slow pace in the Group 3 Prix la Rochette over Longchamp’s short seven-furlong course (it’s actually more like 6.8 furlongs).

He took the field along for the first five furlongs in a time a monstrous 8.25 seconds slower than they went in the Prix du Pin for older horses.