SATURDAY’S all-weather card at Lingfield suffered from by a boycott over prize money, which meant that one race was a walkover and another had no declarations at all. Nonetheless, we got to see a couple of strong contests in the Group 3 Winter Derby at 10 furlongs and the Listed Hever Sprint.

Wissahickon won the former emphatically at long odds on and is right up there with the best fully developed performers seen on the surface in Ireland and Britain (Enable won on the all-weather, of course, but much earlier in her career).