IF you wanted a snapshot of the place of the Galway Plate in the kaleidoscope that is Irish National Hunt racing, you got it on Wednesday. In the 2016 renewal when six horses rounded the home turn with a chance of winning: three of them trained by Willie Mullins, three of them trained by Gordon Elliott.

The snapshot went further too. Three of the six horses were owned by Gigginstown House, who had a foot in each camp – or, more accurately, two feet in the Elliott camp, one foot in the Mullins camp – and one was owned by Susannah Ricci.