YOU quickly realise the popularity of jumping horses when Liam Healy’s tweet of a photo of Death Duty jumping at Tipperary - (the mighty “Double D” DEATH DUTY wins impressively for @_Davy_Russel_ @gelliott_racing) received 17 retweets and 77 likes.

The photo was of the horse jumping well, but to this observer, there were as many sketchy jumps as fluent ones. He made two bad mistakes and did not seem to be making the right shape over some fences, combined with his low head carriage. He was landing on his head.