FIGURING out what happened at the Dublin Racing Festival can be a key to Cheltenham and beyond, and one of the more interesting, and unusual, takes in the aftermath of the meeting came from the X (formerly Twitter) account @JinksMarmaduke.

The account does a fine job on speed figures and French racing, but his main thought after the DRF was that the usual outside bias on the Leopardstown chase track, let’s call it the Galopin Des Champs route after where he has raced in most of his big wins there, had flipped over the two days to the point where the horses out there were ‘running on a backwards escalator.’