THE recent Newmarket Meeting was billed as for “Future Champions”, which leaves it with plenty to live up to, but there was a reasonably strong supporting cast to the two Group 1s there, won by St Mark’s Basilica and by Pretty Gorgeous.

Winter Power’s win in the Cornwallis Stakes on the Friday was unexpected but came in a useful time, and the Tim Easterby-trained filly now figures on 111. Even a strongly run race at five furlongs (winner’s finishing speed % was 99.1) seemed a bit sharp for Method, who ran to 103 here but remains on 108.