For every bookmaker in the land the standout highlight has to have been every race in which Ryan Moore didn’t ride a winner! In all seriousness, though, it was great to see arguably the best in the world prove himself head and shoulders above many of his contemporaries. Looking at the equine stars then Muhaarar made the most competitive Group One of the meeting look like a procession but, Time Test is the one that will stick in the mind. He’s regally-bred, won in a great style and even had the form of his London Gold Cup victory franked when Space Age took the Duke Of Edinburgh. There might not be a race for him in the UK until his owners’ Juddmonte International at York in August, but he’ll be worth the wait.

Time Test and Acapulco were the two horses who made me audibly expostulate at the two-furlong pole, although I think I made some even louder noises when Udododontu got caught in the final strides of the Britannia having looked to have put the race to bed 100 yards from the winning post. The Commonwealth Cup was a bit of a highlight too, in the sense that although I didn’t back the winner, the new race proved a massive hit with horsemen and punters alike and proved the cynics – such as me – who are sceptical about any sort of meddling with the race programme, to be wrong.

Solow enjoyed a tremendous start to the year with victories in the Dubai Turf at Meydan and the Prix d’Ispahan at Longchamp and completed a Group One hat-trick in the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot last week.

The four-year-old is set to return to Britain for what could be his biggest test yet on July 29, with Aidan O’Brien’s dual Guineas hero and St James’s Palace Stakes scorer Gleneagles lying in wait.”He is very well, he took the race well and I’m very happy with him,” said Head.

“That (Goodwood) is the plan if all goes well and I hope we get a little rain.”Head is relishing what promises to be a mouthwatering clash of the generations and wonders whether a tough first half to Gleneagles’ Classic year could catch up with him.

He said: “It’s going to be an interesting race, I think. Gleneagles has had a tough spring, he has two Guineas and a St James’s Palace in his legs, so we’ll see.

Journey has plenty to find on the official figures with some of her peers in the Betfred TV/EBF Hoppings Stakes at Newcastle on Friday but she has looked a reformed character of late.

The John Gosden-trained filly initially looked disappointing and it took her four runs to break her maiden.Home bred by George Strawbridge, her mother Montare won a French St Leger but was notoriously highly strung and that appeared to be the case with Journey.However, Frankie Dettori has been on board the last two times and she has been far more tractable.

On her penultimate outing at Goodwood she went down narrowly to James Fanshawe’s Speedy Boarding.At the time the form looked nothing out of the ordinary, but Fanshawe rates the winner very highly indeed and she came out and impressively won the Ballymacoll Stud Stakes next time out.

The pair did pull six lengths clear of the remainder at Goodwood so it was no surprise when Journey finally came good next time out at Newbury.Given an easy time of things at the head of affairs, Dettori got her to settle and was able to give one of his special waiting-in-front rides, beating some highly-touted fillies easily.