The Monday morning after Aintree, a couple of weeks before the Punchestown festival, I spoke to Ruby Walsh.

The number of potentially high-calibre staying chasers in training at the moment is quite astonishing.

The aftermath of Cheltenham didn’t half throw up a somewhat bizarre story, with Jim Culloty giving Davy Russell the bullet, telling him he would ride no more of his charges, including last year’s Cheltenham Gold Cup hero, Lord Windermere.

 

There were so many good performances at Cheltenham this week it is hard to know where to start.

The days of Kauto Star, Denman, Big Buck’s, Master Minded and Ruby Walsh are long gone for Paul Nicholls, writes Pat Keane.

Willie Mullins and Ruby Walsh have done us proud this week and it would be silly not to place our faith in them at Cheltenham today.

Selectivity and discipline are the key ingredients for any punter who harbours hopes of making a profit at Cheltenham this week, writes Pat Keane.

Well, at least reading the front-page story of the Racing Post on Tuesday, it seems that off-course bookmakers are literally trembling in their boots.

The next time you hear anyone moaning about the lack of prize money in racing then just refer them to February, 2015.