AFTER a weekend that served up six Group 1 events, headed by one of those wondrous two-year-old displays that will be talked about for decades, there is still only one place to start. That is the last Sunday’s Pat Smullen Champions Race For Cancer Trials Ireland.

For a great many people this unique edition to Irish Champions Weekend was the highlight of the two days and from the outset of the build-up to the aftermath of the race itself it was a truly class event.