Due to the problem I spoke of in this column last week - rain, or, more specifically, the lack of it - we’re still waiting to really get going with our National Hunt horses, but Don Cossack didn’t half throw down an early marker with a brilliant comeback this week at Punchestown.

Seamus Heffernan will be unavailable to Aidan O’Brien during Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe weekend after he lost an appeal against a 10-day suspension picked up at the Curragh last Sunday.