Maybe David Hayes should have thrown in a sneaky pacemaker for star stayer Americain in Sat's Queen Elizabeth Stakes? That would have ensured the race was run at a true clip and not at the dawdle-and-dash it ended up. As it was, Americain had little chance when More Joyous was allowed to poke along at a leisurely pace in front and then spear away with a sizzling finale.Veteran turf scribbler Ken Callander had this to say on the American issue in his Daily Telegraph column: 'There is no rule in r

Maybe David Hayes should have thrown in a sneaky pacemaker for star stayer Americain in Sat's Queen Elizabeth Stakes? That would have ensured the race was run at a true clip and not at the dawdle-and-dash it ended up. As it was, Americain had little chance when More Joyous was allowed to poke along at a leisurely pace in front and then spear away with a sizzling finale.

Veteran turf scribbler Ken Callander had this to say on the American issue in his Daily Telegraph column: 'There is no rule in racing that says all other horses have to fall into a conga line behind Gai Waterhouse's runners and let them bowl along in front at their leisure like More Joyous did in her Queen Elizabeth Stakes win on Saturday...Let's take nothing away from More Joyous, she is an out and out champion, but Craig Williams, Damien Oliver, Jonathan Riddell, Hugh Bowman, Dwayne Dunn, Kathy O'Hara and Brenton Avdulla all rode like boofheads...Let's not hear any more criticism of Gerald Mosse's ride on Americain in the BMW after what we saw on Saturday...It is easy to say, if you were one of the beaten riders, that you would have been a sitting shot for something else if you took off...What is the difference? They were sitting shots for More Joyous by sitting back twiddling their thumbs and doing nothing...Nash Rawiller took the champion mare through the first 800m of the 2000m race in 53.78 seconds. You could kick your hat along in front of you and run quicker than that.'

And still on the subject of crackerjack stayers...Melbourne Cup winner Dunaden kicks off his new campaign in the Jockey Club Stakes at Newmarket UK on Saturday...Trainer Mikel Delzangles is keen to test the six-year-old against Europe's best mile-and-a-half (2400m) horses this season.