I reckon there is a very good chance Charm Spirit (39) is going to improve those statistics following his success in a hot renewal of this year’s Prix Djebel at Maison-Laffitte.

What was really impressive about the Djebel from a sectional timing standpoint is that they ran every part of the race significantly faster than the fillies managed in the Prix Imprudence, the other big classic trial over the same course and distance. They went 0.6 of a second faster for the first three furlongs then accelerated to take the last half mile a monstrous 2.46 seconds faster.