IT doesn’t seem like 12 months since this day last year, when you needed four screens and five sets of eyes to watch the racing, so thickly and so quickly did it come. You probably haven’t put the extra television back into the kids’ room yet.

So here we are again, John Smith’s/July Cup day. You can make a case for plenty in the former. All you need is the replays from Royal Ascot and you can make a case for the top seven in the market. However, you can also make a cogent case for Master Of Finance, and he looks a little over-priced at 20/1.