Is it me or is everything in racing designed to be misleading. Take for example the GoingStick reading. Surely anyone starting from scratch with this would decide that the softer the going the higher the rating. But no, we can rely on it to be the other way round: Heavy reads 1 and hard 15.

Now looking at it logically, the softer the ground, the further the stick will penetrate. So shouldn’t heavy be 15 and hard – barely scratching the surface – be 1? Or is that too simple?

And who decided on the Oddschecker site to make blue the colour of a market-mover inwards and pink the colour of a drifter? I suppose this was done to reflect the colour-coding on Betfair where blue is back and pink lay.

However, blue is a cold colour, synonymous with a horse that is friendless, so I would have thought rather than using it to denote a horse attracting interest the opposite would apply. Oddschecker go a stage further on the opening pages of their site where green means a horse being backed (yes, I can follow that – green for go) but red (surely the hottest colour found) is used to indicate a horse on the drift.

Maybe I need a darkened room…