THE problem with the interference rules now as they stand in France – and as they stand in Ireland and Britain – is that there is a lack of certainty. You can’t say for certain that Romanised definitely would have won Sunday’s Prix du Moulin had Circus Maximus not moved to his left on his inside. And you can’t say for certain that he definitely wouldn’t.

And when there is a lack of certainty, you introduce an element of subjectivity. And while subjectivity is a friend in many walks of life, it is the enemy of the definitive.