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“When we finally got let out of our collective time-out corner, we really wanted to go do stuff,” he said.

Samuel helps Romy off the floor and positions her in the corner of the room, like a child in time-out.

The three-time major winner looked perplexed as he headed off court for a time-out, wagging a finger towards his player's box and shaking his head.

"We were expecting horses' performance to improve when we introduced the time-out, but were surprised by how immediate and significant the improvement was," lead researcher Louise Evans said.

For someone like Ellen DeGeneres, whose daytime talk show ended after 19 years following allegations reported in BuzzFeed of sexual misconduct, racism and intimidation committed by her executive producers, cancellation mostly amounts to a time-out.