Citizenship the highlight of a memorable weekend

It was great to record a double at Leopardstown on Saturday, add another winner on Sunday and also have Oscars Well running such a brilliant race in the Irish Champion Hurdle, despite hating the ground.

I had suggested last week that most of my runners over the weekend would have prospects and was hoping to pick up one or two winners. To bag three was a bonus and six of the eight runners were in the first three.

Citizenship winning the Boylesports.com Handicap Hurdle wasn’t a surprise – my third winner of the valuable pot after Dance Beat and Studmaster, his form and weight gave him a good chance — but to do it without having any luck at all was remarkable. In a competitive 30-runner contest like this, you generally need everything to go your way and, instead, everything that could go wrong did go wrong.