STRANGE that, here we are, on the morning of the most important weekend on the Irish flat racing calendar, and we still don’t know the make up of the most important race on it.

Latest indications from YR - the app, that is, not the sauce, although it is still difficult to get your head around the fact that they know more about the Irish weather in Norway than they do in Dublin - were that there was going to be between 14.3mm and 23.2mm of rain between six o’clock last night and six o’clock this morning.