The horses are continuing to run well and I’m looking forward to a busy, exciting couple of days.

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

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.

VERY little will change for us on Christmas Day given the chaotic week that is ahead. All the horses will be exercised as normal with racing coming up in Leopardstown, Down Royal and Limerick.

I HAVE had some very enjoyable trips to England with my horses over the years and Sandown has been especially kind, with Moscow Flyer doing the business in the Tingle Creek Chase two years in a row.

I WAS happy with Oscars Well in the Morgiana Hurdle at Punchestown last Sunday.

We’re coming off a great week’s work at last and it’s brilliant to be able to say that after the period we’ve had with the weather.

Mossey Joe was the surprise star of the show at Cork as jump racing returned to Ireland following the big freeze.

If we don’t get some racing soon we’re going to run out of things to talk about so thank God for Cork, which looks like it might give us our first meeting of the month tomorrow.

GIMLI’S ROCK proved a facile winner of the Grade 2 WKD Core Hurdle at Down Royal yesterday, highlight of a spectacular treble for trainer Jessica Harrington, also successful with the Robert Power-ridden pair Bostons Angel and Saville Row.

YESTERDAY’S journey north to Down Royal was certainly worthwhile and any day you have a treble is a very good one.

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