Newcomer Stravinsky had the bookmakers hastily revising prices for the 2,000 Guineas after an impressive victory in the Moore-style Convivial Maiden at York yesterday.
The 8 to 11 chance produced a devastating turn of foot for Kinane - completing a 26 to 1 plus treble - to put paid to Muniz by two lengths.
The colt, representing the powerful owner-trainer combination of Michael Tabor and Aidan O'Brien, is a stingy 5 to 1 with Ladbrokes and William Hill. Coral are hardly generous either in offering 6 to 1, while Sean Graham quotes the same odds.
"He's explosive, isn't he?" said O'Brien. "He has that extra gear and he's so well-made. He's in all the big races including the Champagne (at Doncaster) but we'll have a think about his next race."
Told that Stravinsky was 5 to 1 for the 2,000 Guineas (a race he won this year with King Of Kings), O'Brien grinned: "That's a good price isn't it?"
Pat Eddery picked up a two-day ban (September 7th and 8th) - to go with the eight-day suspension for his riding of One So Wonderful in Tuesday's Juddmonte International Stakes - for careless riding aboard third-placed Siege.
Mick Channon is sure to be on tenterhooks waiting for the release of the Godolphin shopping list this autumn after Bint Allayl (Kinane) provided the trainer with his second big success at the meeting, beating Wannabe Grand by one and three-quarter lengths.
The filly demonstrated breathtaking speed to take care of a strong field assembled for the Peugeot Lowther Stakes. The victory followed the almost equally impressive success of the Channon-trained Josr Algarhoud in yesterday's Gimcrack Stakes.
Both horses, however, are owned by Sheikh Ahmed Al Maktoum and there is a strong possibility that they could be claimed for the Godolphin enterprise. A further chance to assess the merits of Bint Allayl is likely to come in either the Moyglare Stud Stakes or the Cheveley Park Stakes.
Sibling rivalry is no longer a taboo subject for Lochangel after the filly's victory in the Persimmon Homes Nunthorpe Stakes. During her three seasons' racing the chestnut had failed to match the exploits of her half-sister Lochsong, champion sprinter and winner of this race in 1993.
Representing the same connections - owner Jeff Smith, trainer Ian Balding and regular rider Frankie Dettori - as Lochsong, the 6 to 1 chance tracked a searing pace set by the French-trained Sainte Marine during the first four of the Group One's five furlongs.
But Sainte Marine's stride had less purpose when she was passed 200 yards out by Lochangel, a 6 to 1 chance, who held a one-length advantage at the line. A length and a half away in third came Lochangel's stablemate Dashing Blue.
Fears that John Dunlop's 9 to 4 favourite Elnadim, winner of the six-furlong July Cup, would prove less effective over the minimum trip proved uncomfortably close to the truth. Never travelling with ease towards the centre, the Danzig colt could never mount a challenge and trailed in 11th.
"Today really suited her with that filly going 100 miles per hour," said Balding, who is already relishing an assault on the Prix de l'Abbaye at Longchamp in October, a race also won by Lochsong. "For two half-sisters to win the race is amazing. She has done it in the right place and roll on the Abbaye."
