Mr Jackson seems to suffer from a bad memory in recent weeks. It hasn’t even been a year since he specifically challenged the connections of Big Brown to “a potential competition” against Curlin.

Who (if not the media and fans) does he think pay for those purses where his “horses run to their best skills as the trainers and owners decide.”

One could go into a long rant about all the ways his current words actions conflict with his earlier ones, but the best response is probably that tiny old word scientists use if a case is evident: Sic! (as in: It makes me …)