MINDING’s return to action at Naas on Monday in the Camelot Irish EBF Mooresbridge Stakes was an impressive one in terms of what she beat and how she beat them, with a three and a half length defeat of last year’s Irish Champion Stakes sixth Moonlight Magic pretty close to her best on the face of it, but it told us nothing much on the clock.

The overall time was poor – worth a timefigure of just 58 – in large part down to Minding’s being able to dictate a slow pace and then come home quicker in the last half-mile than any other horse for races starting on the round track. But one thing the filly definitely still has is a turn of foot.