LAST week’s Time Will Tell column dealt with the opening day of Royal Ascot, including what the sectionals told us, such as that the St James’s Palace Stakes won by Circus Maximus had been falsely-run and that the other non-handicaps on the card had been truly-run.

Those sectionals were provided by Ascot racecourse from a GPS-based system. Although there were some teething problems on that first day, accuracy improved thereafter, and the sectionals themselves ended up being discussed at some length on television and in print.