IS there a collective noun for a group of professional sportsmen who seem to doze off on the job. Could we have used it at Navan on Sunday, or in the Aviva on Tuesday?

The result of Josephine Gordon’s case in Britain recently showed that giving a horse a bad ride is not an offence worthy of a riding ban, but when you take everything into account on how the opening hurdle at Navan on Sunday unfolded – Danny Mullins on board a John Ryan-trained horse, Icantsay, which was well backed at 9/2 – this was a massive case of misjudgement by all the riders who let him go so far clear. It didn’t even look as though he was travelling that fast to build up the lead.