Overthinking can be a huge hindrance - particularly when it comes to race tactics

In the modern era nothing is allowed to be simple. Jockeys and trainers seem to want the perfect winner, rather than just trying to get their horse from A to B as quickly as possible.

For example, for a good few years now the Ballydoyle team have totally overcomplicated the round track at Ascot. Maybe their horses haven't been good enough but in recent seasons their tactics with Auguste Rodin, Jan Brueghel and Los Angeles have been a complete mess and all of them have run way below form as a result.

I sort of understood the thinking in that they were planning to run the finish out of the opposition, but it backfired badly and the horses had really hard races in the process. Los Angeles looked to recoil from his poor effort behind Ombudsman in the Prince of Wales's when running miles below form at the Curragh on Saturday, and it remains to be seen if he will ever be the same horse again, while the jury is out with regard to Jan Brueghel after his below-par effort in the King George when he was sent for home a long way out.