On their live broadcast ITV had an overhead shot of Benvenuto Cellini in the stalls. He was buffeting but clearly had all feet on the ground at that stage. It was less than 12 seconds before the start.
If the horse has created its own misfortune in that short time surely it should be deemed an unlucky turn of events and written off as such. Precedent or not it should have been ignored. Neither should they have taken Moore’s supposed race plan into account.
Bad luck for Epsom to have to contend with rotten weather when making a fist of reinvigorating the day.