THE Little Britain mentality is alive and well – despite, or perhaps because of, Brexit’s meeting head on with reality in recent months – as judged by some social media comments about the Dubai World Cup card at Meydan at the weekend.

You might think that scepticism about results in the desert would have been reined in by the successes of the likes of Blue Point, Cross Counter, Old Persian and Thunder Snow – the first three trained by Charlie Appleby, the last by Saeed bin Suroor, and therefore at least nominally British -– or that of the crack Japanese mare Almond Eye, but not a bit of it.