I THINK it will take an extraordinary display by Denman if he is to defy top weight in the Hennessy at Newbury today.

MY main ambition, as far as Cheltenham today is concerned, is to walk out of the place relatively unscathed.

I suppose you could best describe my weekend as the storm before the calm!

I’D imagine many of the readers of this paper will think the big race of the weekend is the Cork Grand National tomorrow, so let’s start with that.

I HOPE I’ll be asked to say cheese after the first race at Chepstow today.

I’M at Cheltenham today for four rides for Paul Nicholls, on what is probably best described as a low-profile meeting by the high standards of that great track.

THE million dollar question at Listowel today is can I win my fourth Kerry National?

IF I wasn’t madly optimistic regarding the prospects of Roby de Cimbre in the Plate yesterday, then the exact opposite is the case with Deutschland in the Hurdle this afternoon.

THOSE of you with long memories may remember here a year ago just how confident I was of winning the Galway Plate aboard Oslot.