IT is summer blockbuster time in the cinemas and last Thursday at Leopardstown saw another repeat of the movie that has been playing throughout this flat season: Ryan Moore going from the front on a Ballydoyle runner and never getting caught. The first three winners on the card were successfully ridden that way and this has been a feature of many of big flat cards this season at the Curragh.

It is almost as if Moore and O’Brien have figured out that many Irish races are slowly run and the place to be is on the pace on the best horse.