NO doubt it will turn up as a quiz question in years to come – the Grade 3 chase which attracted 10 entries, nine of them in the same ownership, which boiled down to five declarations with only cap colour to tell them apart.

The race was the Naas Directors Plate Novice Chase in which Ball D’Arc led home three other Gigginstown House Stud runners in what might be termed a maroon-wash, if that term didn’t sound so daft.