IT was some Cheltenham Festival, wasn’t it? Some week. There are many ingredients that go in to making a Cheltenham Festival good, to making it memorable, but above all, like any sporting event, it’s the performers and the performances. Maradona’s World Cup, Carl Lewis’ Olympic Games, Borg v McEnroe, Dublin v Kerry, Ali v Fazier, these are the memorable sporting events, defined by memorable performances and memorable performers. You want to see the superstars go high in the big events, and the higher they go, the bigger the event.

There were superstars there last week all right, equine and human. Willie Mullins and Ruby Walsh had seven winners each, seven winners shared. The next best jockey had three, the next best trainer had three.