After Mullins and Elliott, the rest are just also rans

So, that’s the National Hunt season done and dusted then and, on the back of Punchestown, it has just been a case of most ensuring they are onside, as the mutual admiration society hit top gear, writes Pat Keane.

There is no denying just how successful Punchestown was, with great crowds throughout and to get almost 36,000 through the gates last Saturday was simply phenomenal.

But studying the statistics for what happened over the entire season, with special emphasis on Punchestown, tells us the vast majority of National Hunt trainers in this country cannot possibly be making any sort of a decent living.