Mums Tipple should stick to sprint trips and sky could be the limit

The sight of 20 juveniles working hard to keep up on the Knavesmire while Mums Tipple careered away in front will live long in the memory and an 11-length win suggests this was a Group horse masquerading in sales-race company.

Just how good Mums Tipple is, time will tell. But the clock does back up the visuals, with a winning time of 1 minute 9.32 seconds more than a second quicker than the one clocked by Living In The Past in the preceding Group 2 Lowther Stakes over the same 6f trip.

There was no shortage of ante-post quotes floating around, and 12-1 for the Commonwealth Cup looks about right. The same price for the 2,000 Guineas, however, should be avoided like the plague.