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WITH the focus on Chantilly today and Epsom later in the week the sport here yesterday had an inconsequential feel to it. Except, of course, to those involved with the winners, and none were more delighted than the connections of Perryston View, winner of the feature Coral Sprint Handicap.

The Primo Dominie colt, a well-supported joint favourite, journeyed from Peter Calver's Yorkshire yard to challenge for the pounds 18,384 first prize, and made virtually every yard of the six furlongs under Mark Birch to take it by a hard-earned half-length. His owners, Ken and Janis MacPherson, had an even longer trip from Scotland, but one "worth every mile".

It was three out of three this season for Perryston View, whose form has been transformed by a visor, and he now has one of the season's championship events, the Nunthorpe Stakes at York in August, on his agenda. In that race, he may come up against an old acquaintance, for when he was sold as a yearling (for 14,500 guineas) the youngster in the next box turned out to be none other than the flying Mind Games.

Calver could have bought either, and said: "Mind Games made 18,000 guineas, which I thought was too much at the time, but I have to admit that he was a bit of a bargain. But ours hasn't done too badly either."

Tagula stepped up on his debut fifth to Russian Revival to book his ticket to Royal Ascot with a ready win in the Sunley Builds Maiden Stakes. The son of Taufan, whose owners Robert and Elizabeth Hitchins are more readily associated with high-class jumpers than Flat horses, drew right away from two well-regarded newcomers, Tumbleweed Ridge and Modern Day, and will next be seen in the Coventry Stakes.