CONTINUING the theme of one-on-one timing comparisons, explored elsewhere, Sunday’s Curragh card provided an excellent opportunity to set some leading two-year-old colts side by side with their female counterparts.

Anthony Van Dyck completed the Galileo Irish EBF Futurity Stakes in a time 0.46s (about three lengths) quicker than Skitter Scatter had managed half an hour earlier in the Debutante Stakes, despite his carrying 3lb more.