Masterscrafstman was terrificially game in victory in the St James's Palace Stakes on Tuesday at Royal Ascot.
People will say that the runner-up, Delegator, is becoming frustrating - but I just think that he was out-gamed by a very hardy horse. Delegator came there with a reasonably well-timed challenge - he could have waited a little longer - and went past the winner, but there was only a neck in it at the line.
It could just be that Masterscraftsman becomes a really tough nut to crack this season in the three-year-old miling division - because it is not that strong, given that Sea The Stars is being campaigned over further.
I just wondered whether Ahmed Ajtebi thought when he was aboard Gladiatorus in the Queen Anne that he was riding in one of these new proposed bullet races over two furlongs.
He set off like a scalded cat from the stalls and the writing was on the wall when he began to look around in an increasingly anxious fashion around halfway. I think the truth of the matter is that Gladiatorus and the other Godolphin horses trained in Dubai are simply half the animals they were when trained in the desert.
Gladiatorus eptiomised that and Godolphin's other runner in the race, Alexandros, ran an even more lamentably.
In Dubai, the tactic of the young jockey was to boot the horse from the stalls and nothing would catch them, but it was not going to work on Tuesday. Those who opposed the horse were well-rewarded.