MANUELA De Vega won the mile listed contest at Pontefract last Monday week and, while the raw timefigure awarded by Timeform (85) is nothing to write home about, there’s reasonable evidence to suggest she’s better than that.

An upgrade based purely on her sectionals saw me bring her to the low-90s but, viewing her closing sectional in light of the other two-year-old race on the card over the same distance, I concluded on a mark of 97.