My main reason for going to Doncaster this afternoon is to ride Join Together in a three and a quarter mile handicap chase.

On a day when his son Patrick equalled the amateur record on Union Dues in the bumper, Willie Mullins unleashed another potential star, Pont Alexandre to make an impressive Irish debut in the Grade 1 Navan Novice Hurdle in Navan yesterday.

My nap of the weekend comes in the very first race at Cheltenham today — Far West in the juvenile hurdle — so we’ll all be out of our collective misery fairly early.