An epidemic of misguided revisionism seems to be unbalancing some normally straight thinking folk lately.

Ground conditions were extremely demanding at yesterday’s Pigeon Hill & Carrigtwohill point-to-point fixture, but Croom-based civil engineer Fergus O’Connor was still the happiest individual at the Clyduff venue as he recorded his fourth career success by guiding his wife Irene Walsh’s Pocket Reader (10/1) to a popular success in the Winners’ Of One.

IT’S never easy watching a once-proud champion lose race after race against Father Time and the campaign for Kauto Star to be put out to pasture resurfaced yesterday as soon as Ruby Walsh pulled the eleven-year old from the Guinness Gold Cup.

ST PATRICK’S DAY couldn’t have kicked off better for Ruby Walsh. It also ended as we expected, but for three hours there in the middle, it looked like it was all going to be one, big damp squib.

AN extraordinary tension gripped every one of the 65,000 people at Prestbury Park yesterday in advance of the Gold Cup.