ORDER Of St George’s excellent timefigure was bettered in the period under review by Harry Angel, who was simply brilliant in landing the Sprint Cup at Haydock by four lengths and one and a half from the Diamond Jubilee second and first, Tasleet and The Tin Man.

He did it by going from the front then quickening clear after halfway – I have him breaking 23.0s for three furlongs out to one furlong out despite the ground being soft – and nothing could live with him. Timeform has a timefigure of 125, and it could easily have been higher.