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.

THE ‘Stars Go Racing’ programme on RTÉ 1 has been getting a good reaction and I’m glad to see that because anything that helps the profile of racing and offers an insight into the sport has to be welcomed.

AS expected Cork was home to very few bookmakers yesterday and just eight of them were available to take on punters.

IT has been a frustrating festival at Galway to date and before last night’s racing, we had five seconds, a third and four fourths.