THIS column has got a few things right in the five months since its inception - even if, as with Legatissimo, you needed some patience to find that out! - but it has also got a few things wrong, no horse more so than Amazing Maria.

The overall times of Amazing Maria’s wins at Royal Ascot and Newmarket were remarkably poor, with the latter seeming to have come about in no small part as a result of a good ride and the misfortune of others. Well, Amazing Maria got to take on a couple of those others - namely Bawina and Fintry - plus the high-class Ervedya in the Group 1 Prix Rothschild at Deauville last week and she beat them all.