ALBERT Einstein famously said that “Imagination is more important than knowledge”. He refers to the fact that knowledge is limited to our level of understanding whereas imagination allows for limitless opportunities.

When it comes to his namesake who made his seasonal reappearance at the Curragh last Saturday our imagination had been running wild after his trainer’s recent bullish reports about him, but data in sport is about what we know and his effort at the Curragh was underwhelming, to say the least.