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.

The multi-talented Quevega produced a dazzling display to slam Voler La Vedette in the Grade 1 Ladbrokes.com Series World Hurdle at Punchestown last evening.

If there was one horse about which to get excited at Leopardstown last Sunday then it was surely John Oxx’s Sharestan.

Henry de Bromhead’s An Dearthair Og can land the second division of the Follow @TipperaryRaces On Twitter Maiden Hurdle at Tipperary this evening.

ZARIYNA can get us away to the perfect start by landing the opening one mile Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fillies Maiden at Dundalk tonight.

A year ago Ireland won a record 13 of the 27 races at the Cheltenham festival.