THE fastest finisher of all across the two days at the Curragh, by Timeform’s reckoning, came not at sprint distances but at 10 furlongs by a horse who did not even win.

The consensus was that Giovanni Canaletto had left his Epsom chance behind by failing narrowly to catch Curvy in a steadily-run Gallinule Stakes, and it’s certainly true that he did not look a finished article yet.