Ruby Walsh: I’d love to have ridden in more Dublin Racing Festivals

Eight Grade Ones and four big-money handicaps in 48 hours was the sort of environment I loved: Pressure, excitement, quality, decisions, atmosphere and tension

Bachasson and Paul Townend win the Limestone Lad Hurdle in Naas last week. His hardest choice today comes in the first where he had to pick between Gaillard Du Mesnil and Stattler in the opening Nathaniel Lacy & Partners Novice Hurdle

I love this weekend and would usually be on route to Dublin this morning to drop my bags into a hotel before the racing and rugby starts. Not today, but hopefully next year I will again, with Gillian, all my friends and thousands of you as we descend on Foxrock to enjoy two very special days racing.

I am not ducking the failings of the IHRB in the week just past (you read my views on that below) but there is no way I am putting those who are holding us back on top of the page instead of what drives the sport forward.