I thought it was gas as bookmakers’ representatives, literally, fell over themselves attempting to better each other with reaction to Hurricane Fly’s success in last Sunday’s Morgiana Hurdle at Punchestown.

If the magnificent National Hunt racing we have been watching over the last week or so hasn’t got the juices flowing then you really are in the wrong game.

Anyone else find last weekend's Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita a complete bore?

Aidan O’Brien’s ability to defy logic never ceases to amaze.

Looking at the reception afforded Rebel Fitz at Cork last Sunday made you almost yearn for the National Hunt season proper to kick into gear.

I’ve seen just about every top-class flat horse from Nijinsky to Sea The Stars, but after watching Frankel at York on Wednesday I have to put Henry Cecil’s colt up as the greatest of all time.

Beware of hype, especially when it’s coming from those whose only desire is the selling of newspapers.

I really had to smile when reading earlier in the week about the so-called sustained gamble on Aidan O’Brien’s Cristoforo Colombo for next Tuesday’s Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot.

When Dermot Weld’s Speaking Of Which won his maiden at Cork in early April the bank balance was immediately in a healthier state.

One might have thought that bookmakers would have sent Sir Des Champs galloping out in the Cheltenham Gold Cup betting, following that performance at Punchestown on Tuesday.