Sir, - I see that Witches Familiar, who won so well at Galway on Monday, is closely related to the champion staying hurdler, Big Buck’s.

Pedantry compels me to wonder if her name is possibly missing an apostrophe - his had a superfluous one.

But there’s a history of good horses with misspelled names. A leading racehorse and sire of the late 18th century, Potoooooooo or Pot 8 os, was allegedly so named because his groom couldn’t spell potatoes.

- Yours etc.,

Rory Montgomery

Blackrock,

Co Dublin.