Ignorance isn't bliss - and Viking Hoard shows we can bury our heads no longer

There has been a common refrain these last few days. Questions, questions, questions. In a week of so many stories, there have remained so many questions but also so very few answers.

Sometimes it requires considerable bravery to ask a question, let alone to provide the right response.

David Mullins displayed such courage when asking himself if he really wanted to carry on as a jockey. It was plainly the right thing to do, for although a superb rider, he was a rider whose heart, by his own admission, was no longer in the job. To have the chance of starting a new life at 24 with a Grand National winner's trophy in your possession is a marvellous thing indeed.