JOHN Gosden is the ultimate man to go to for a racing quote, and his measured, erudite and yet laconic delivery means that if all breaks loose on a day of televised racing and panic begins to set in, sticking a microphone under Gosden’s nose always seems the right thing to do.

Not only will he tell you what’s happening and why, but he’s sure to remind you that it was also inevitable, and he’d informed us all of that fact some time earlier.