A NOTABLE feature of recent years has been the different race-planning strategies employed by some trainers which reveal their preference for racing horses as two-year-olds or not.

For all the efforts that go into the compiling of the two-year-old rankings, and ante-post betting markets that take off from mid-summer the previous season, in recent years, two-year-old Group 1s are not necessarily the best indication of classic success nor an indication that there is a special colt or filly on the scene.