THE Dublin Racing Festival definitely threw up more questions than the answers we were expecting from it, writes Page Fuller. The biggest question being, will J.P. McManus be supplementing the Irish Gold Cup winner, Fact To File, for the Cheltenham equivalent next month?

He was extraordinarily disappointing at Kempton in the King George and, to be honest, the data doesn’t give us many clues. He never travelled at Kempton, but he approached the first four fences on average at 30.96 mph, basically the same speed as the average entry speed of 30.93 mph he approached the first four fences in the Ryanair Chase last year.