I CANNOT claim to have watched last weekend’s North American action when in reality I was holed up in some bar in central Paris, but it is (hopefully) not too difficult to make sense on paper of the more relevant results.

If there is a really good North American two-year-old around then I have missed it. The Grade 1 wins at the weekend for that age-group came from the filly British Idiom in the Alcibiades at Keeneland (113 rating), the colt Tiz The Law in the Champagne at Belmont (116), the colt Maxfield in the Futurity at Keeneland (116) and the filly Wicked Whisper in the Frizette at Belmont (109).