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Arvika Ligeonniere is one of five entries from Willie Mullins in the Frank Ward Solicitors Arkle Chase at Leopardstown on January 27.

I was delighted with Bostons Angel finishing second in the cross-country chase at Cheltenham yesterday.

This afternoon’s meeting at Navan will go ahead as scheduled after the course passed a morning inspection.

Jezki was very good last Sunday at Fairyhouse, doing everything right to beat a quality field in the Royal Bond. It has surprised us really how well he has handled the heavier going. That has given us a lot more options.

Talk about being brought down to earth with a bang. There were a couple of bright points but last weekend was largely disastrous, coming on the back of a tremendous period for the yard.

It was another great week with two winners from five runners, with the other three delighting me as well, while I was pretty hopeful that Miss Macnamara and Posh Frock would go close in Dundalk last night too.

Tom Cooper believes Forpadydeplasterer could be the forgotten horse of Saturday’s Paddy Power Gold Cup at Cheltenham.

Aidan O’Brien’s ability to defy logic never ceases to amaze.

Attending the Horses-in-Training Sales in Newmarket, trainer Jessica Harrington enjoyed a welcome change of luck in Naas yesterday, registering a tremendous treble with Jezki, Maller Tree and Jenari.

Earls Quarter and Patrick Mullins should prove tough to beat in the Owenavarragh (Amateur) Race at Wexford today.

We are getting revved up for Punchestown, which gets under way next week.

People might not think it because I haven’t had a runner, but I would really love to have a horse good enough to take part in the Aintree Grand National. It is a race we all dream of winning but I just haven’t had one yet.

The Ladbrokes Irish Grand National is one of the most precious jewels in Ireland’s racing crown, and it was Lion Na Bearnai who came up trumps, returning at odds of 33/1, with the crowds happy to cheer him into the winners’ enclosure with his popular local trainer Tom Gibney.

Flemenstar romped to an impressive eleven lengths win in the Grade 1 Powers Gold Cup at Fairyhouse yesterday.

Dessie Hughes is keen to see how Lyreen Legend copes with a sounder surface in tomorrow’s Coolmore National Hunt Sires Ask & Getaway Novice Hurdle at Fairyhouse.

The horses are continuing to run well and I’m looking forward to a busy, exciting couple of days.

I have said before how nervous I get leading up to big races and major festivals.

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!

It was great to record a double at Leopardstown on Saturday, add another winner on Sunday and also have Oscars Well running such a brilliant race in the Irish Champion Hurdle, despite hating the ground.

The two-day Leopardstown meeting is one of the busiest and most important we have had for a while.

HE rapidly improving Dedigout can land the nap in the Grade 2 Slaney Novice Hurdle at Naas tomorrow.

THE Willie Mullins-trained newcomer The Paparrazi Kid proved the only one of four odds-on favourites to triumph in Navan yesterday, the Milan gelding justifying odds of 30/100 in the bumper.

JENARI is a reasonably confident nap to land the opening Christmas Novice Hurdle at Navan this afternoon.

THE Christmas festival at Leopardstown was launched on Tuesday and it really is an event you look forward to.

I HAVE had some very enjoyable trips to England with my horses over the years and Sandown has been especially kind, with Moscow Flyer doing the business in the Tingle Creek Chase two years in a row.

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

THE Morgiana Hurdle has cut up quite a bit which is a pity. It’s a real trappy race and I’m not quite sure what is going to make the running which is a bit of a worry as Oscars Well would like a proper pace.

JIMMY MANGAN’S daughter, Jane, was 18-years-of age yesterday and certainly celebrated the occasion with a real sense of style when landing a double at Limerick.

DERMOT WELD’S Unaccompanied has to be the nap choice in the Listed Naas Vet Panel Supporting Racing Fishery Lane Hurdle at the Co Kildare track 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.

THERE is no doubt what the highlight of my past week was.

JUST FOR JOE is the nap choice to beat likely favourite, Laganbank, in the Barna Waste Novice Hurdle at Galway today.

DERMOT WELD’S Danziger is fancied to lead her rivals a merry dance, from a favourable draw, in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Median Auction Maiden at Dundalk this afternoon.

SIREN’S SONG was a hot topic of discussion after last Sunday’s racing in Navan and I have to say she won the Salsabil Stakes very well. I said last week I thought she might be good and she certainly indicated that with a strong finish to win by a length and a half.

FRESH from his Scottish Champion Hurdle success on Sanctuaire at Ayr on Saturday, Ruby Walsh doubled-up on Shifa and Allee Garde for Willie Mullins at Gowran Park yesterday.

I JUST want to have a word about the Aintree Grand National because there has been some negative coverage even though there shouldn’t be after another wonderful renewal.

TAKE a chance on Elusive Award in a competitive Summer Barbeque Evenings Handicap at Naas this afternoon.

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.