Ruby Walsh: My Christmas wish list is a little different to what it used to be
Ashdale Bob and Paddy Kennedy after winning the Grade 2 Betvictor Novice Hurdle at Navan yesterday. Picture: Healy Racing.
Micheál Martin said yesterday that he doesn’t expect fans or spectators to be back at sporting events before the autumn and, as I sat at the edge of the parade ring before the first race yesterday in Navan with Shane McGowan’s Fairytale Of New York playing out over the loudspeakers, I realised how lonely a racecourse is with no one in attendance.
Yesterday at Navan and tomorrow at Thurles are the traditional pre-Christmas race meetings when you get a sense of the festive season but right now it just feels like any other day. Business as usual but it’s still Christmas time, a time of joy and happiness but also a time of hope.
