IT remains to be seen whether or not Too Darn Hot proves to be a champion of the future remains to be seen, but he is clearly the champion among this year’s two-year-old crop in Europe right now and will remain so unless something remarkable occurs in the next few weeks.

His success in the Dewhurst did not go entirely smoothly, but it did ultimately come emphatically, at the chief expense of a Group 1 winner in Advertise and a Group 1 runner-up in Anthony Van Dyck. It rates highly on form, and it rates fairly highly on time, providing you factor in the sectionals which gave rise to it and allow for the apparent effect of a wind that was variable in both strength and direction.