THE story of the Dante Stakes was always likely to boil down to whether last year’s outstanding juvenile Too Darn Hot would stay the trip in a well-run race, and the answer, putting aside the idea that they all stay but some stay faster than others, was a palpable “non”, with John Gosden abandoning the idea of running his colt at Epsom, and instead nominating the St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot as the colt’s next target.

Unconvinced