FEATURE handicaps at Royal Ascot are ridiculously competitive. One of the prime examples of that strength in depth came in the 2020 King George V Stakes when the following year’s Gold Cup winner Subjectivist got beaten off a mark of 94.

He came up a length and a quarter short of a certain Hukum, who took advantage of a seriously attractive mark of 90 on his way to becoming a dual Group 1 winner rated 127.