TWO well-run championship events as consecutive races over the same distance on a card which was unaffected by the weather is a dream for time analysts, and that was the exact scenario which transpired at Newmarket last Saturday.

Whatever unfolded in the races themselves, we were going to see how the leading two-year-old colts in the Middle Park Stakes measured up against the leading two-year-old fillies in the Cheveley Park Stakes on the clock.