Five rides, and probably not the strongest-looking book I’ve had, but that’s the nature of racing in the countdown to the Cheltenham.

Now that the dust has well and truly settled on Galway, and we have had time to analyse what went on, the one conclusion that has to be drawn is the drop in bookmakers’ turnover was alarming to say the least.

Highlight of the flat action in Navan last night was the return to form of the Tracy Collins-trained Arctic in the Follow Navan On Facebook Handicap, the grey five-year-old registering his first success since landing the Group 3 Round Tower Stakes at the Curragh as a juvenile.