WILLIE Mullins provided a list of horses for the assembled media on his media day on Monday, with horses’ names and numbers that corresponded to the numbers on their saddlecloths.

It was lucky that he did, because most of the horses looked fairly similar, mostly brownish, long faces, you know the type, except for Douvan, who looked, well, like Douvan. And Bunk Off Early, who looked grey, and Carter McKay, who also looked grey, albeit a different shade (of grey). And Carter McKay was the one with Patrick Mullins on him.