Ruby Walsh: Minella Indo to lay down Gold Cup marker at Leopardstown

Minella Indo and Rachael Blackmore winning at Navan last month. Picture: Healy Racing.

Paul Townend and Willie Mullins dominated day two at Leopardstown. Paul is riding at the top of his game, with great confidence, but he has long since mastered and realised how to do that and to keep it going.

I often doubted if people really believed me when I said during my riding career that the hardest part of being a jockey was actually getting and keeping the rides on horses, or that the physical act of riding is second nature to anyone who knows how to ride and that the tactical calls become easier with experience because that is just a common fact of life.