RIVET’S 101 timefigure was joint-fastest (with the Doncaster listed second Tomily) among two-year-olds in a quiet week for such things, but there was another juvenile on show elsewhere who looked a group-class performer in the making.

The John Gosden-trained Cracksman did everything asked of him in winning a mile maiden at Newmarket on his debut, recording an average speed faster than all but one of the five seven furlong races which preceded it.