Ruby Walsh: Dealing with good fortune is easy, coping with bad luck a bigger test

When Paul Townend and Rachael Blackmore left the tarmac on the Dublin to Birmingham flight last night, both did so feeling very differently to how they felt taking off on the corresponding flight 12 months earlier.

Last year one came chasing a first festival winner and still slightly under the radar, the other came as Willie Mullins’ number two rider, knowing that I would pick the wrong horses at some point and hoping he would benefit from it.