AS a time analyst, there are few things I like more than two championship races being run at the same distance, on the same course, within a short time of each other.

I got just that last week, when the Juddmonte-sponsored Cheveley Park Stakes and the Middle Park Stakes on Saturday allowed for direct comparisons between superior two-year-old fillies and superior two-year-old colts at six furlongs at Newmarket within a 35-minute window. The wind was gusting, but in other respects conditions were exactly the same.