Absence makes the horse run faster as pool is preferred to the Downs

Wish you were here? If you haven't owned the winner of a major handicap for almost 33 years, it's only natural you should have a squint at the weather forecast, weigh up the possibilities, balance all, bring all to mind, and then decide against Goodwood and go on holiday instead.

Mike Yarrow took that very option, came down firmly on the side of not paying any last-minute cancellation fees, and missed watching Lancelot Du Lac double his tally of prestige handicaps with a relatively comfortable three-quarter-length victory in the Qatar-sponsored Stewards' Cup, under a typically jaunty Frankie Dettori.

For Yarrow, mind, three-quarters of a length is a pixel compared to the outcome on the day his Tom Sharp performed a frankly Frankel-esque tour de force on the Rowley Mile when blitzing the Cesarewitch by daylight in 1984.