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.

I would be lying if I didn’t admit that I was a bit fed up right now after seeing all my plans for the week go out the window.

Johannisberger gets the nap to overcome an absence of almost a year in the Bumper at Cork tonight.

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.

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.

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

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

BEEF To The Heels is the nap choice to leave a serious bout of seconditis behind by landing the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Maiden Hurdle at Clonmel this afternoon.

The big news from Commonstown today is that we are losing Dragon Pulse, who will race in France for the coming year.

MAGGIE CONNOLLY, a mare who clearly hasn’t been easy to train, can land the nap in the Festival Any Day Flexi Ticket Hurdle at Punchestown this afternoon.

The first thing I must do is assure readers that Steps To Freedom is absolutely fine and I really just had a change of heart with regards to running him at Dundalk last night.

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.

IT was an up and down week of racing for us. It was great to get back among the winners again after six or seven weeks and just draw a line under that.

YOU can say you’re into the national hunt season proper when you get to October, although it looks like Down Royal at the beginning of November will be when Bostons Angel, Oscars Well and Saludos will make their seasonal reappearances.

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.

SAINT GERVAIS is fancied to land the nap in an interesting little five-runner Bumper at Listowel this afternoon.

IT’S another big weekend, ahead of a very busy week but when you’re a dual-purpose yard, it’s always busy. You’ve got to love it, or you wouldn’t do it otherwise.

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.

IT has been another good week, with four winners since last Sunday before racing last night but it might even have been better if a bit more luck had gone our way.

KEN CONDON moved his total for the week at the track to three when Peaks Of Fire took the Dawn Omega Milk Maiden at the final stage of Killarney yesterday.

MAYBE, one of the best juveniles seen so far this season, puts her reputation on the line in the Group 3 Silver Flash Stakes at Leopardstown tonight.