The same today, the same tomorrow, the same for ever more?

What is there to say? How many words do you want? 850? Really? What can be said when it's all been said before, the only consolation being that in time to come it'll all need to be said again, but differently?

Aidan O'Brien, the Magnier-Tabor-Smith axis and Galileo won a Classic, their second of two run in Britain this season, with the elegant and decorative filly Winter, herself as grey as a January afternoon but undeniably more thrilling in drawing clear of her rivals, led by Rhododendron who is – cough – another Aidan O'Brien, Magnier-Tabor-Smith and Galileo production. This lot don't simply have an ace up the sleeve, they own the playing-card factory. If not one then the other, but always one.

The only joker in the pack was jockey Wayne Lordan, sitting pretty in pink with two furlongs to run when momentarily it looked as though Intricately, trained by O'Brien minor Joseph and ridden by O'Brien tertius Donnacha, might still give the youngsters revenge over the old man for all those nights sent to bed with no supper, purely, of course, in order that they might make the weight the following day.