La Bague Au Roi and Walsh provide star turns on a day the weather tried to spoil

We live in a culture of blame. Sometimes, however, there is no-one or nothing at fault. Sometimes things simply just happen. The fate that befell the second day of this second Dublin Racing Festival was surely one of those things.

On Sunday morning the lead story on the RTE Radio news revolved around Brexit, an impending occurrence that will impact Ireland as well as the United Kingdom.

Whether you were a remainer, a leaver or merely an interested observer, it is easy to see Brexit as rooted in blame. Those who have long wanted Britain to plough her own furrow blamed the European Union for much they see as wrong in Britain. A majority in the referendum voted accordingly.