On 24 May at Epsom Downs Racecourse he started 4/5 favourite in an eleven-runner field for the six furlong Woodcote Stakes and looked likely to win before being caught on the line and beaten a head by the filly Fairy Gold.
[5] A week later he started odds-on favourite for the Summer Breeders' Foal Plate over five furlongs at Manchester Racecourse and won "very easily" by three lengths.
[7] Ridden by Tommy Loates, he won the five and a half furlong contest by "a couple of lengths" from the odds-on favourite Blackwing.
[8] Two weeks later, with Loates again in the saddle, he followed up by taking the July Stakes (actually run on 28 June) at Newmarket Racecourse, beating the favored Eventail by a neck.
[2] He contested the Epsom Derby on 31 May, but started a 33/1 outsider after delaying the state for more than half an hour by his misbehaviour and refusal to co-operate.