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Data released by Coursetrack for Friday's racing confirm that Space Blues and Urban Icon registered particularly smart sectionals in the latter stages of the seven-furlong Listed Investec Surrey Stakes.

Space Blues , an impressive winner of a York handicap on his previous start, put himself firmly into the reckoning for Royal Ascot's Jersey Stakes later this month with a neck victory over the 2,000 Guineas eighth, the pair a length and a half clear of Marie's Diamond in a finish that saw the trio pull right away.

The winner completed the penultimate furlong in a time of just 10.32s (43.53 mph), following a fifth furlong of 10.51s. His seventh and last furlong was run in 11.03 seconds - the fastest final furlong of the day and fully 0.5 seconds quicker than that registered earlier by the two-year-old Oh Purple Reign, who appeared to fly the closing stages of the Woodcote Stakes in a strong-finishing second to Pinutabo.

Urban Icon was quicker than Space Blues in the fifth furlong (10.31s) but slower in both of the last two sections.

While five-year-old Defoe's time of 2m 33.94s for the Investec Coronation Cup dipped under the Racing Post's standard for the trip by 0.56s, the later Investec Oaks was run in an unexceptional 2m 36.09s (slow by 1.59s).

The sectionals reveal that the pace set by Communique through the first mile of the Coronation Cup was quicker than that set by Lavender's Blue in the Oaks at every stage and that Defoe's finishing effort - completing the final furlong in 11.87s, compared to runner-up Kew Gardens' 12.24s and Oaks winner Anapurna's 12.10s was particularly impressive, as was already apparent to the eye.