THE so-called fillies’ St Leger – the Park Hill Stakes at Doncaster on Thursday – contrasted with the real thing by being a highly tactical affair, with the result that the winner, God Given, ran a poor overall time for a Group 2, worth a timefigure of just 88.

Her closing sectionals included three that were well under 12.0s and it is clearly a performance that should be upgraded in that context.

I have a 106 sectional rating on her and on runner-up Horseplay, but third-placed Pilaster, who was still closing at the line, comes out best on 108 after weight carried and those sectionals are taken into account.

Dancing Star’s win in the JRA Sceptre Stakes at Doncaster on Friday prompted a rather underwhelming 100 timefigure, despite fairly efficient sectionals, the real standout time at seven furlongs on the card coming from the Saeed bin Suroor-trained two-year-old maiden winner Royal Marine (104 timefigure).

Thomas Hobson won a weak Doncaster Cup later on Friday with a 113 timefigure, while there were listed race wins the following day from Blakeney Point at Chester (97 timefigure) and Sparkle’N’Joy at Leopardstown (96).

Away from group and listed races, it is worth calling out the winning efforts of Amomentofmadness (115, Portland Handicap at Doncaster), Limini (110, Petingo Premier Handicap at Leopardstown) and Zap (104, Sovereign Path Premier Handicap at Leopardstown) as well as the two Hamdan Al Maktoum-owned two-year-olds Khaadem and Jash.

Khaadem ran a 103 timefigure in winning at Doncaster on Wednesday, though there is some dispute over exactly what time the colt recorded: the official version is significantly slower than that arrived at from video analysis, but British racing is sticking to its guns.

Meanwhile, Jash annihilated modest rivals at Salisbury two days later, though an 82 timefigure in itself is nothing to write home about. Both could be group class in time.

Baby Pink caused a stir by doing a passable impression of Arazi in winning a handicap at Listowel by a wide margin, though a timefigure of 89 and sectionals which show the leaders did plenty early on should keep the feet at least partly on the ground.