Longchamp can give the Curragh a lesson in how to apologise and move on

Sometimes one has a hunch. One definitely had one two Sundays ago.

For while watching the Prix Maurice de Nieuil runners circle the paddock, and as many of us frantically used social media to keep abreast of the extraordinary sporting encounters taking place between England and New Zealand at Lord's, and Djokovic and Federer at Wimbledon, there was a palpable sense that just possibly the eyes of the sporting world were not, at that precise point, fixed on Paris-Longchamp.

It was, however, a most lovely place to be.