Welfare must always be racing's main concern but there is much to celebrate

These have not been an easy few days for racing.

Questions relating to racehorse welfare have been front and centre, as they always should be, but it is possible some people have inferred the wrong answers. There are undoubtedly wrongs that need to be made right but let Frodon, The New One and Grumeti be shining examples of how much racehorses mean to racing people and fans.

At Cheltenham on Saturday Frodon won and The New One did not. For one the glory days are in the here and now. For the other they are in the past. The words spoken by those connected to both those marvellous horses, combined with the way in which they were lauded by Cheltenham's racegoers, hammer home that horses are racing's heroes.