THE tempo of the national hunt season is really picking up for me this weekend as we say goodbye to a successful flat campaign.

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.

I’M glad to be looking back on a great week with five winners from last Saturday up to the first race at Killarney last night but there was one event put a dampener on it, when I was fined for looking after the welfare of my horse.