IN the last two weeks, Kings Dolly has generated a multiple of the column inches that she had generated in the near seven and a half years of her life that went before. When the shopkeeper in your local newsagent volunteers an opinion on a racing-related matter, you know that it has gone mainstream.

There was universal surprise that the Turf Club’s referrals committee did not impose a short suspension or a fine on Davy Russell despite the fact that there were mitigating circumstances, as have been well documented. A short suspension would have been fair, it would have been just.