I WAS happy with Oscars Well in the Morgiana Hurdle at Punchestown last Sunday.

Hurricane Fly heads a field of just six possibles for the Ladbrokes.com Morgiana Hurdle at Punchestown on Sunday.

THE Real Article gets the vote to land what promises to be a very informative Grade 2 WKD Hurdle at Down Royal this afternoon.

THE IRISH flat season doesn’t come to an end until tomorrow week but with Bostons Angel, Oscars Well and Saludos all making their seasonal reappearances at Down Royal, it’s probably best to look back at what has thankfully been another very successful campaign for me.

YOU know you’re back into the national hunt season when the weather makes a fool of you, the plans you’ve made have been ruined because you took the forecasters at their word and you have to make new plans very quickly.

SHOT From The Hip is the nap choice to send bookmakers scurrying for cover in the Mullinavat Novice Hurdle at Gowran Park this afternoon.

THE Punchestown executive must be smacking their collective lips in expectation of a massive spin-off from Cheltenham for their forthcoming festival.

Oscars Well is set to drop to the minimum distance at the Punchestown Festival following his luckless defeat at Cheltenham last week.

IN an interview in the Irish Examiner on Monday, Davy Russell said he wasn’t jumping up and down about anything for the week, but had a fighting chance of a winner.

The Cheltenham nerves are kicking in now and we’re really just putting the finishing touches to our team for the festival. We haven’t fully decided on the full make-up of that team but Oscars Well and Bostons Angel will definitely be going and I’m happy to report that they are well.

Last Saturday was right up there with the best days I have had in racing. Winning a Grade 1 is fantastic. To win two in one day is phenomenal and for Saludos to follow up by coming back to his best to take a Grade 2 prize on Sunday was just the icing on the cake.

IF there was one horse to take out of Leopardstown last Saturday, with the future very much in mind, it was surely the Jessica Harrington-trained Oscars Well.

It’s funny how things have worked out with the delay of a week’s racing due to the heavy rain.

It is wonderful to come back from the holidays to a weekend’s racing like we have ahead of us and in particular, the card at Leopardstown tomorrow.