SOMETHING pretty remarkable happened at Santa Anita in California on Saturday. On a card featuring five Grade 1s, one of the winners ran astonishingly fast, and that winner was a two-year-old.

The unbeaten Bolt d’Oro took the Frontrunner Stakes – won by the likes of American Pharoah and Nyquist by workmanlike margins in recent years – by almost eight lengths and in a time which was 2.78s faster than the Chandelier Stakes won by the unbeaten 116-rated Moonshine Memories and 0.80s faster than the Zenyatta Stakes won by 124-rated three-year-old Paradise Woods.