WITHOUT a list of entries from the RDS, it is difficult to know exactly how many entries there are this year in any class, however one fact is crystal clear: the reigning Coote Cup champion Pink Flamingo does not line out in next Saturday’s broodmare classes.

Dessie Gibson’s extravagant-moving grey had won the stinted mare class last August before taking the overall broodmare title. Without a foal at foot - the Silvano mare absorbed last year’s pregnancy - her owner has decided to wait out this year.