IT can’t be Royal Ascot every week. Or the July meeting. Or Glorious Goodwood, masquerading as the Qatar Goodwood Festival. The problem is though, when you happen upon a British racing weekend that drops in among those meetings, after the last Lord Mayor’s show and before the next one, the quality runs thin.

Not that connections of the winner of the Class 2 Mettal UK Handicap at Newbury will be complaining. It’s an £80,000 handicap, over £40,000 to the winner, and you can see why Prydwen has been put in as favourite for it.