Ian Heitman sees Aidan O’Brien win yet another Futurity Stakes – but wonders if the Derby makes more sense than the Guineas next

The final weeks of the turf season saw most of the meetings being run on soft or heavy ground with the final Group 1 race in the UK, the Vertem Futurity Stakes at Doncaster on October 22nd, run on heavy ground for the second time in three years. On the same day at Saint-Cloud in France, there were also Group 1 races for two-yearolds, the Criterium International over a mile and the Criterium de Saint-Cloud over a mile and a quarter and they too were run on heavy gr...