THE Craven meeting at Newmarket is the focus of my attention this week, where Field Of Gold destroyed the Craven Stakes field with a display of brazen speed and Almeric outlined that he is a horse of considerable potential.

Any assessment of the Craven meeting this year must be conducted in the context of the ground, which differed from the official description on the first two days. The ground was described as Good to Soft on the Tuesday, but the data tells us that it was soft.