IT was a fairly quiet week in Britain and certainly in Ireland outside the two big races at Kempton and Haydock, but there were still some performances of note.

Here Comes When won a slowly-run Unibet Mile on the Haydock undercard in a time only fractionally quicker than recorded by the two-year-old Great Scot in a listed race 35 minutes later. I have timefigures of 90 and 105 respectively on those winners (latter factors in weight-for-age), and even that may be generous.

A better figure at Haydock was posted in the valuable opening handicap, in which Mekong looked potentially group class in recording a 110 timefigure.

Kessaar won a well-run Sirenia Stakes at Kempton with a solid 108 timefigure. That figure was bettered only by one other juvenile on the all weather this year – Quiet Endeavour (110), who ran inexplicably poorly here.

The Dick Poole Stakes – Group 3 for two-year-olds – at Salisbury on Thursday proved a rather underwhelming affair on the clock, with Yourtimeisnow registering a 93 timefigure in a race in which a couple of her chief rivals underperformed.

Limato continued his rehabilitation with another listed win at York on Sunday, though his overall time was fractionally slower than that of the winner of an ordinary three-year-old handicap elsewhere on the card and is worth a timefigure of just 88.

Both those recent wins have come on ground that has been on the easy side of good, which should finally put paid to the notion that Limato needs fast ground. Should, but probably will not.

There were good handicap wins at Ascot on Friday and Saturday from Silver Quartz (110) and First Eleven (109). The latter, unlucky on this course at the Royal meeting, beat the Melrose winner Ghostwatch, receiving only 1lb, and could well have a big race in him.