The humour improved this week after I managed to finally get a winner with Parramatta at Laytown on Thursday.

Take a chance on Exhortation to make it third-time-lucky for Dermot Weld and Pat Smullen in the Irish Stallion Farms Maiden in Dundalk tonight.

We are coming off a terrific weekend that yielded three winners, with six of the other seven runners all finishing in the first four.

You have to enjoy it when the horses are going well and, with three winners in the past week before last night in Dundalk, I am certainly not complaining. In fact four out of my previous ten runners came up trumps so that’s a percentage you’d have to be happy with!

THE Stars Go Racing episode in which my apprentice Alan Quinlan and I were involved in a battle with Mick Halford and Ella McSweeney, was aired this week and we all got a little over-excited when Dundrum, ridden by Kate, won. I have to say I’m delighted with how it all went. It was a great experience and Alan has been a great sport.