IF today’s Abingdon Stakes is ever an Oaks pointer, it is an Irish Oaks pointer, like it was in 2018, when Sea Of Class won it before going on to win at the Curragh five weeks later, and in 2012, when Great Heavens won it, before winning the Lancashire Oaks and then the Irish Oaks.

This year, in all of its topsy-turviness, today’s contest could be an Investec Oaks pointer too.