WE might be right in the middle of one of the most insightful periods of the National Hunt campaign but it was actually the 2024 flat season that got the biggest shot in the arm this week.

If you had listened to Ryan Moore’s interviews after an exquisite effort to win the Breeders’ Cup Turf on Auguste Rodin earlier this month, you would have fully expected a new stable was already being prepared for the top-notch three-year-old at Coolmore Stud in advance of his next career as a stallion.