Time we grasped the winter all-weather nettle

IT’S been a dreadful National Hunt season and, quite frankly, we will lose little sleep when it finally finishes.

There has been no pattern or rhythm to the game at all this winter and it has been virtually impossible to get a handle on things.

An industry has no possibility of flourishing when the whole system is stop-start and snow, frost, waterlogging, fog, cancellations, abandonments and early morning inspections have left so many utterly frustrated.