IT isn’t very often a horse heads to the racecourse seeking a four-timer, gets beaten and emerges with reputation not just intact, but enhanced.

WILLIE MULLINS has decided to take the easier option with Sports Line and let him line up in the Guinness Greenmount Park Novice Chase at Limerick on St Stephen’s Day.

BERONI, confidently ridden by Paul Townend, gave champion trainer Willie Mullins his first win in the prestigeous Troytown Handicap Chase at Navan yesterday.

IT’S time to move on now and this weekend is all about riding in Ireland, at Naas today and Navan tomorrow.

THE eve of Cheltenham now and there is no doubt the most important thing this weekend is to walk out of Naas tomorrow night relatively unscathed.