THE remainder of the Curragh meeting had plenty of interest but nothing to set clock-watchers purring in the way that Churchill and Winter did.

Whereas those two winners recorded finishing speed percentages (speed in last three furlongs compared to speed overall) only a little over the par of around 102, many of the other races were less truly-run. One beauty of the finishing-speed metric is that it is a ratio and so is barely affected by ground conditions.