Ruby Walsh: High Definition viewing is great but nothing beats being there on Irish Derby day

What will win the Derby is the question those 1,000 people will all be asking and High Definition will be the choice of many

Shane Foley onboard Discoveries (far side) wins the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Maiden ahead of Ryan Moore on Tuesday at the Curragh last night. Picture: Morgan Treacy/Inpho

I most certainly did not think in March of 2020 that it would be the end of June in 2021 before a single member of the public would enter an Irish racecourse again as a spectator.

I doubt many people did, but as the realisation of what was going on began to set in and it became clear a vaccine was the only route back to normality, I feared the end date could be in 2023. Science or medical science, to be exact, is not my strong suit, but common sense or rumour suggested, the creation of one could take years.