THERE is a saying that Newmarket’s 2000 Guineas represents, in effect, the conclusion of the two-year-old campaign from the previous season.

Saturday’s win by Magna Grecia adds some substance to that suggestion, for it was he who had landed the final British/Irish two-year-old Group 1 of 2018, the Vertem Futurity Trophy at Doncaster at the end of October.