Bank on Vital not to lose the plot

THERE are many occasions when you travel to the races full of hope, obviously based on having some decent rides. Today, at Gowran Park, is certainly not one of them.

I have five rides and let’s just say that if I squeeze one winner out of them, I will be more than happy. Eoin Griffin was on fairly early in the week for me to ride Admiral Barry in the three-year-old hurdle, so you’d assume he’s reasonably well fancied.

I know the horse never won on the flat, but that’s the limit of my knowledge. What I think I know is that the juvenile hurdlers so far, both here and in Britain, are very ordinary.