PROFESSIONAL sport’s ability to provide upsets has been illustrated this English Premier League season by the success of Leicester City and the demise of some far more fashionable clubs, and a reminder of its implicit uncertainty was also served by the result of the QIPCO 2000 Guineas at Newmarket.

The victory of Galileo Gold – a smart two-year-old, though by no means a great one – was not too head-scratching on its own. But the abject failure of the first three in the betting, who filled the last three places at the finish, certainly was.