Ruby set for festival feast

LISTENING to Ruby Walsh at the Cashmans’ Cheltenham preview-night on Monday you would be inclined to avail of the 7-4 or so available about him to be leading jockey at next week’s Festival.

Walsh is a realist, calls it as it is and when he fancies plenty of horses then only a fool would refuse to listen.

He really does appear to have a serious book of rides. He’s an absolute certainty, for instance, to be aboard at least three favourites.