For all the money spent on Private Purchase (PP) horses for the four-year-old classics, the irony of today's Classic Mile is that the most likely players are predominantly horses which arrived as griffins, as did last year's eventual Derby winner and Horse Of the Year, Ambitious Dragon.
Fay Fay, Admiration and Captain Sweet even contested actual griffin races as two-year-olds - the ones so discouraged by the Jockey Club these days as unworthy.
That does not deflect from the argument that would point out that five of the previous six winners of the Classic Mile were PPs, but the advantages of buying a ready-made horse as against building one from scratch have always been up for debate.
PPGs, like blondes, do appear to be more fun, however. The six PPs in today's event have won six races between them from 30 starts, while the four PPGs have 48 starts for 23 wins between them.
And the prospects are there for one or more of the lowly-rated PPs to miss out on a win or two simply by contesting this event and running better than anyone expects.
The handicappers were at it again this week, hoisting Go Baby Go 15 points for his win up the straight and we probably should have brought this up last week in the context of the Irish handicapper's wish for sectional times - why?