TUESDAY at Cheltenham was supposed to be a day for clarity and certainties; four odds-on shots, that could be combined to make a 7/1 accumulator, apparently had the power to hurt the betting industry to a level not seen since Annie Power’s fall at the meeting in 2015, though that ‘good thing’ four-timer came out at north of 20/1 and was before the affordability era.

In the end, chaos, even carnage, defined the card as we were reminded that there are no certainties in racing, only probabilities and outcomes, and if you can’t envisage something crazy unfolding, then you haven’t watched enough racing.