THE increasing unpredictability of the weather is just another spanner in the works for trainers attempting to navigate the craziness that is their world.

Just five days after the conclusion of Irish Champions Festival, Ado McGuinness is still smarting at the recollection of the heavens opening at Curragh Racecourse in plenty time to make the ground a little more testing for the Al Basti Equiworld, Dubai Flying Five Stakes. Meanwhile, Go Athletico was munching away on some hay in his box at Skylark Stables.