WIND-assisted course records also went the way of Kew Gardens in the Listed Zetland Stakes and Withhold in the Cesarewitch on the Saturday at Newmarket. But some reports that Abel Handy had broken the juvenile best for five furlongs in the Group 3 Cornwallis Stakes the day before are incorrect, as video-editing software shows the time was 58.9s, give or take a few hundredths of a second, and not the faster hand time quoted in some quarters.

The 10-furlong Kew Gardens won at is a distance seldom used by youngsters, and the time he recorded translates into a useful 101 timefigure. But his closing splits were impressive, ending with a 12.15s final furlong that was comfortably fastest across the two days. Talk of a Derby/St Leger campaign next year for Kew Gardens seems realistic.