Ok now that the ball busting is over with I will give you my real take on the race.
Neither cacique or English Channel is at their best on the lead. I didn't feel that the grass favored speed yesterday. I was shocked and stunned when Pommes Frites actually got caught loping so loose and slow earlier in the day(different course, but still). Neither Johnny nor Edgar wanted the lead, and with good reason. I think that EC was set for a bounce off that lifetime top last time and that alone made the difference down the stretch. Gesture as i said many times does not really want to run by anybody in a dogfight. Race really settled nothing in terms of which one of those 4 is "best" overall as a horse. A race run under freakish soft and slow fractions as a conditioon will usually not prove anything. This one can be filed under that label. I think cacique was the most fit horse yesterday(EC was fit but set for a bounce off his lifetime top) as Gesture hadn't run in a long time, Swallow had only had one race against inferior horses that didn't tighten him enough, and EC was set to regress. Plain and simple, it was just Caciques day. But I spoke of those premises on all three of the others BEFORE the race, not after.
Race proved nothing yesterday in terms of which one of these four is actually the best. Ok? Thats an unbiased view of what i really feel without the ball busting.