Speaking of the Gold Cup, a text message landed after Don Cossack’s win in the Ladbrokes Ireland Kinloch Brae Chase at Thurles on Thursday: “Ordinary performance,” it said. “Didn’t look like a Gold Cup winner.”

(That’s what you get when you have paused the television to listen to an interview from earlier - the horses just starting off down the back straight when you get a text message telling you the result.)