ADDEYBB was a runner-up from 2019 who went one better in the same race in BCD 2020, and The Revenant had been another in the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes.

The latter’s task was made considerably easier by the underperformance of odds-on Palace Pier, who was found to have lost a shoe, but he still had to battle hard to deny the front-running Roseman by a head.