Why hasn't there been more fanfare about her trial win? This 1,000 Guineas contender is overpriced to follow up at Newmarket

Parents of my generation will know all about Archie The Inventor from the kids' show Balamory. According to the song lyrics he could do everything, and while he was making rocket ships out of toilet rolls his namesake Archie Watson does a pretty good job of making relatively cheap horses into Group performers, year in year out.

He's one of the first trainers I look for when it comes to two-year-olds at Royal Ascot. They are always underestimated in the market and on Saturday his Duty First put up the best performance by a three-year-old this season in the Dubai Duty Free Stakes at Newbury. I've been trying to understand why there hasn't been more fanfare about her runaway victory and I can't come up with an explanation.

Some races are Classic trials in name only, but that was not the case with the Duty Free on Saturday as 15 fillies went to post, including some Group-winning juveniles and loads of horses who had competed in top company. Not only did Duty First beat them hollow, she did it in a time a good bit quicker than the Greenham Stakes for colts later on the card, and behind her were horses trained by Aidan O'Brien, Charlie Appleby, Andrew Balding and Ralph Beckett