“She’s gone.”

The words I heard from one racegoer watching the closing stages of the Lismullen Hurdle at Navan yesterday. The punter was of course referring to Apple’s Jade, and not in relation to her chance of winning the Grade 2 hurdle she had won the previous two renewals of but her career in general, after she laboured to a nine-and-half-length defeat at the hands of Bacardys.