It has been incredibly quiet for me of late as the ground is terrible and it means that I am not able to get the horses out that I want to, both over jumps and on the flat.

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

Blinkered for the first time, the David Wachman-trained Chrysanthemum landed the first stakes race of the new flat season, the Group 3 Lodge Park Stud Park Express Stakes, when proving too strong for favourite Twirl and Princess Sinead in glorious sunshine at the Curragh yesterday.

We are coming off a desperate bout of seconditis at the moment, with four horses going very close but just not having their heads in front on the line in the past week.

I HAVE had my fill of hospitals in recent weeks, having had to go with Kate a couple of weeks ago after she broke her wrist, and then spending the last week going up and down with Johnny.

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.

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.

DAVID LIVINGSTON can land the nap in the Group 2 Juddmonte Beresford Stakes at the Curragh tomorrow.

DUNDALK is going to trial a reduced interval of time between races from next month and it is certainly worth doing in my opinion. What they’re planning is to reduce the gap between some races from the usual 30 minutes to 25.

I GO to The Curragh today fresh from a trip to Blenheim for my latest three-day event.

THE forecast for the next week starting tomorrow is that it will be very unsettled so we’re adopting a wait-and-see policy before deciding what to do with Dragon Pulse.

THE rematch between Maybe and La Collina in tomorrow’s Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes at the Curragh is undoubtedly the highlight of the weekend's horse racing action, and the bookmakers have firmly pinned their colours to the former's mast.

THE last race at Galway tonight, the Caulfieldindustrial.com EBF Maiden, houses the safest wager in the shape of Dermot Weld’s Catch The Eye.

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.

AIDAN O’BRIEN has won the three classics run in Ireland so far this season and can make it number four with Wonder Of Wonders in the Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh tomorrow.

THE good form in the stable has continued in the past week and, if anything, got even better, with five winners in 14 runners from yesterday week up to before racing last night. If we could keep that percentage up we’d be very happy indeed but we know it’s unrealistic in the long run.

Misty For Me floored multiple Group One winner Midday in sensational style when making all the running in the Stobart Ireland Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh.

THE horses continue to run well, which is very pleasing ahead of another big week for us and for Irish racing.

WITH Banimpire winning yesterday’s Ribblesdale at Royal Ascot, trainer Jim Bolger once again proved that his runners possess an innate toughness that allows them triumph against apparent adversity.

THE Jim Bolger-trained Teolane showed her quality when making all to land the listed Coolmore Stud 2-Y-0 Fillies Sprint Stakes at Naas yesterday.

THE Jim Bolger trained Banimpire is on course for a crack at the Etihad Airways Irish 1,000 Guineas following another gutsy victory in the Group 3 Blue Wind Stakes at Naas last night.