THE unveiling of the grandiosely-titled World’s Best Racehorse Rankings in London on Tuesday provided an opportunity to take stock of what sort of a season the 2016 flat was at the elite level.

From an Irish point of view, it was a slightly-above-average year in terms of the number of home-trained horses in the listings (21 compared to 19 across the previous eight years) but a slightly-below-average one in terms of its highest-rated representative (Found on 124, compared to 127).