Newbury's Flat season comes to a close on Saturday Worthington's Armed Forces Day, with a fantastic eight-race programme headlined by the £60,000 G3 Worthington's OCSL Stakes staged over a mile and a half for three-year-olds and upwards.

There's a whiff of Wales about Hawkbill. Seeing is believing, and the progressive punches above their perceived weight is in the record books, but they're still to meet their Waterloo, more than a hunch that a proper rival will make a short story out of the fairytale.