IT’S vital these days to have a healthy suspicion of most things that are posted on social media but it was a week where a X post from Fergal O’Brien Racing pretty much summed it up. The problem with modern April Fools jokes is that they’re no weirder than what’s actually happening anymore.

Firstly, Cheltenham suddenly closed up shop with three meetings of the season left as immediate attention needed to be paid to the drains in the home straight, before the ground dried. How close did we come to potential trouble at the Festival, if a lot of rain had come?