Ruby Walsh: Getting through the weekend will take planning

The scene is set for some tremendous action but to enjoy all of it will take planning and a detailed schedule.

Hypotenus and Keith Donoghue on the way to winning the Xenon Security Maiden Hurdle at Gowran Park yesterday.

I am hazarding a guess that all this weekend’s Rugby World Cup matches have been scheduled for Lyon, Nantes, Bordeaux, Lille, Marseille and Saint Etienne to spread the show before it concentrates on Paris in the coming weeks and not to avoid a clash in the capital with the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe meeting at Longchamp.

Not even the purest of die-hard racing fans could believe Europe’s richest race will upstage the rugby currently in play in France. Nevertheless, it will run alongside it and hope the rugby will garner its expected results so the Longchamp victor might gain some column inches on Monday.