WE know by now that Sunday at the Curragh was a special day. Everyone who was there felt it, and anyone who wasn’t there knows it by now.

All the elements conspired to make it so. Pinatubo’s performance in the Goffs Vincent O’Brien National Stakes was a be-there performance, and Tarnawa’s win in the Moyglare “Jewels” Blandford Stakes, trained by Dermot Weld, on Pat Smullen’s day, was a feel-good win.