Time for Turf Club to grasp the going description nettle

WALKING out of the press room at Limerick on Sunday, shortly before the first race, you immediately felt the National Hunt season was back in full flow.

A fine crowd, big buzz and faces you hadn’t seen too often through the summer told you all you needed to know.

We can dress up flat racing all we want, throw as much money as we like at it, but the simple facts are that, for the vast majority of punters in this country, National Hunt is what gets them rocking.