It’s Arc week. Although some might say it’s the week leading up to the Istabraq Hurdle at Tipperary. The race Jezki warmed all hearts with a comeback win in last year. The jumps season proper isn’t far away but there is still plenty to play for in the prolonged ending to a decent, if not spectacular flat season.

Perhaps this campaign could have been more spectacular if Enable hadn’t got injured earlier on. Perhaps there would be more excitement about the Arc in this instance also. Yes, John Gosden’s filly is attempting to become only the third back-to-back Arc winner since 1978, but she is doing so off a mostly vacant four-year-old season.