It’s great to be back at the start of the national hunt season once more, and there’s so much to look forward to for the months ahead, writes Ruby Walsh.

I think I can head to Naas today with a degree of optimism and it’ll be a surprise, at least to me, should I leave empty-handed.

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.