Andrew Balding is enjoying his best season and Dream Eater is very nearly his best horse – odd therefore Dream Eater has yet to add to Balding’s harvest.

He was fifth to Henrythenavigator in the Guineas.

Peter Chapple-Hyam’s pair, Tariq and Winker Watson are, like their trainer, trying to put their seasons back on course.

Ballydoyle sails on; Johnny Murtagh almost lost the steering when fumbling his reins on Henrythenavigator at Royal Ascot and maybe that contributed to the impression that Raven’s Pass was closing.

Murtagh said: "I love to promote this horse. He has the courage all the great ones do."

On reflection, no, there seems nothing to stop Ballydoyle.

Murtagh suggested after first Rip Van Winkle then Mastercraftsman leapt to the head of the Two Thousand Guineas betting that there were “plenty of nice two-year-olds to come.”

We’ve already seen Set Sail and Westphalia, Ballydoyle’s runners in the Veuve Clicquot Champagne Stakes.

The former won a Gowran maiden but the latter was exposed by Bushranger, himself put in his place by Mastercraftsman.

Anyway in Group Twos Ballydoyle are not invincible.

Likeable Champagne sorts are Hannon’s Soul City whose Newbury maiden could hardly have worked out better – likewise Mick Channon’s Orizaba who won his maiden at the Berkshire course by nine lengths.

Orizaba fell out of the stalls in the Coventry where he failed to do himself justice. Narrow preference is for Soul City.