Ruby Walsh: Benie in better form than last year, so she gets vote

Benie Des Dieux: Has been in good form on the gallops in preparation for today’s assignment.

A new year, a new day and a new dawn. A microphone awaits me instead of a saddle and, even though the build-up to today seems to have dragged equally as long as if I was riding, the lack of pressure and the ease with which I have slept is a new but very welcome feeling for me.