The quality of all-weather racing has improved this winter, due mostly or entirely to Arena Racing Company’s injection of prize money leading into an All-Weather Champions’ Day in April.

The Racing Post letters page can make for depressing reading, even on those rare occasions when Laurie Williamson is not dissing the memory of Frankel with a diatribe of unparalleled tendentiousness. By Simon Rowlands - published 11th February 2014