In the following year he won highly-competitive races at Lingfield and Newmarket before being beaten in a rematch with Windsor Lad for the Coronation Cup.
[3] He was sired by Dark Legend, who finished third to Gay Crusader in the 1917 Epsom Derby before winning many major races in India.
[4] At stud he was a strong influence for stamina[5] and his best runners included Galatea, Duplex (Prix du Jockey Club) and Dark Japan (Goodwood Cup).
Easton's dam Phaona was a great-granddaughter of the broodmare Astrology, whose other descendants have included Canford Cliffs and Makybe Diva.
The race was run of fast ground in front of a crowd estimated at at least 300,000 and Easton started the 100/9 third favorite behind Colombo and the Chester Vase winner Windsor Lad.
[16] On his first appearance as a four-year-old, Easton contested the £531 Spring Stakes over one mile at Lingfield Park Racecourse in April.
He looked very impressive before the race and won by a neck from the three-year-old Sea Bequest, to whom he was conceding twenty-four pounds, appearing to win rather more easily than the final marin suggested.
[19] On his final racecourse appearance, Easton ran at Royal Ascot in the Ribblesdale Stakes, which was then a race run over one mile for three- and four-year-olds of either sex.