THERE have been some distinctly forgettable winners of Longchamp’s “Guineas” trials – the Prix de Fontainebleau and the Prix de la Grotte – over the years, but I will be surprised if that remark applies to Persian King, winner of the former last Sunday.

Everything about the son of Kingman exudes class, from his efforts at two years, when he beat subsequent Vertem Futurity winner Magna Grecia in the Autumn Stakes at Newmarket, to this slamming of an erstwhile highly promising stablemate in Epic Hero.