I THINK we done it, I think we done it,” said Tadhg Moynihan to Eric McNamara after Real Steel flashed by the post, at the tip of the 30-runner field in the Paddy Power Chase.

McNamara thought they had done it as well. Two seconds before being embraced by Moynihan, he punched the air. When you’re in the game as long as he has been, you know when the head bobs your way.