Arvika can make it four from four over fences at Punchestown

I was all set to travel to Sandown today to ride Un de Sceaux in a Listed hurdle, but those plans went west yesterday morning.

It was disappointing, because the more than useful Melodic Rendzvous was also likely to be in the field and that would have been very informative. Un de Sceaux actually went across and, I gather, travelled really well. Also, of course, he would have revelled in the testing conditions.

Last week we referred to the fact that certain courses try to race all the year round and one of them is Sandown.