Boy, were we unlucky!

Beware of hype, especially when it’s coming from those whose only desire is the selling of newspapers.

She came, she saw and, I suppose, conquered, but the massively over-hyped so-called Aussie superstar, Black Caviar, was a bit of a damp squib at Royal Ascot.

An unsuspecting public was subjected to some two weeks of torture on the lead-in to the race, and the mare was probably always going to struggle to live up to unrealistic expectations.