Ruby Walsh: The Dublin Racing Festival was great for everyone bar our breeding industry

All eight Grade One winners were bred in France, and on the weekend, when the Scilly Isles Chase at Sandown is included, that becomes nine

SPECTACULAR SUCCESS: The crowds flocked to Leopardstown for the Dublin Racing Festival last weekend where Honeysuckle was one of the star attractions. Pic: Inpho/Tom Maher

I loved the Dublin Racing Festival (DRF) last weekend. From the racing to the crowds to the questions the results posed and performances that left no doubt, I enjoyed every bit of it. It has been rehashed in every column since last Monday, compared and contrasted to all the spring festivals, but it was only what, for me, it always should have been.

The races are not a reinvention of the wheel and all bar the Dublin Chase have a history of one fashion or another, and the Sunday meetings that amalgamated to form the weekend were amongst my favourite days of the year.