THE focus on the opening day of the five-day Qatar Goodwood Festival is usually the Group 1 Goodwood Cup, or possibly the Group 2 Lennox Stakes – and both were noteworthy events again this year – but this hot-off-the-presses review can start in only one place where times are concerned (the remainder of Goodwood will be picked up in next week’s Time Will Tell.)

The performance of Pinatubo in running away with the Vintage Stakes earlier on the card was absolutely extraordinary in time terms, though it has to be conceded that there were a few difficulties in compiling numbers.