Pinatubo was giving Godolphin their third win in the Chesham in 2019 and they have another likely big player in New Science after he impressed on debut at Yarmouth. Godolphin also ran their Derby winner, Masar, in this race when finishing third in 2017 so the Chesham has featured two domestic Classic winners in its last five runnings (Churchill being the other) so it has become a much more fashionable race of late. Pinatubo added the Chesham to his Woodcote and maiden races successes so he was more experienced than most winners of this 7f contest restricted to offspring of sires that had won over a minimum of 9½ furlongs. Prior to his victory what was significant about recent winners were the vast majority were once-raced. Thirteen of the last 23 winners had won their sole start whereas four of the last eight winners; Berkshire, Richard Pankhurst, Churchill and Battleground, were beaten on their on their only previous run and the 1996 winner, Shamikh, was having his racecourse debut. That last-named pair were trained by Aidan O’Brien who were well-backed favourites despite a defeat on debut so they clearly came on a bundle for the run. That bodes well for their Point Lonsdale who won on debut. Ballydoyle can consider themselves unfortunate not to have won four of the last five runnings with Lope Y Fernandez finishing second to what turned out to be one of the highest rated two-year-olds of all time in Pinatubo. All five Ballydoyle winners were once raced heading into the contest. Two of O’Brien’s five winners were fillies and they have won four times in the last 19 years including a 1-2 in 2017 and must be respected given they are heavily outnumbered and have the Albany option over a stiff 6f. In victory last season, Battleground extended the superb record of the leading fancies as 28 of the last 32 winners could be found in the first four in the betting and 14 of those winners started favourite (including joint-favourites) and all four odds-on shots within that time period were successful. Mark Johnston likes this race and saddled the second and fourth last year. It takes a tough two-year-old to win over as far as 7f in a quality race at this stage of the season and toughness is the hallmark of his training operation. Although out of luck with his runners in the last decade including the 5/4 favourite in 2018 (though he was unrepresented on three of those occasions), his previous six runners heralded three winners and a third. John Gosden has supplied three winners, a runner-up and a third. Seven furlongs in mid-June is a test of stamina for two-year-olds so no surprise whatsoever that stamina-laden sires have a good record, especially when we consider that this race is restricted to progeny of stallions that had won over a minimum of 9½f. Of the last 25 winners, 11 were by offspring of stallions whose Sire Index was over 10f (the 2015 winning sire, Youmzain, is a high as 14.4f) and ten more winners’ Sire Index’s were over 9f, comfortably so in the vast majority of cases. Positives: Had one start, the favourite, by stallions with a Sire Index of at least 10f, trained by Aidan O’Brien, Mark Johnston or John Gosden, fillies. Negatives: Outside of the first four in the betting, by stallions with a Sire Index of under 9f