IT feels like we have had more than three renewals of the Dublin Racing Festival in its current guise. It feels more embedded into the racing calendar than that. And the 2021 renewal is fascinating. Fifteen races, all with deep quality, including eight Grade 1s.

There may be only five runners in the Grade 1 Paddy Power Irish Gold Cup tomorrow, but it is still a top-class contest. The stable companions Kemboy and Melon are bidding to go one better and two better respectively than they did in the Savills Chase at Christmas, and they won’t have A Plus Tard hunting them down this time.