Ruby Walsh: Start early, finish early is the wintertime way. Pity Mazars can't follow suit

With the clocks going back this weekend it's time for racing to warm our winter days. However the Mazars report into matters of grave financial concern at the IHRB still has not appeared

SLOW PROGRESS: One wonders why HRI hasn't pressed the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board more on the delays of the Mazars report. Pic: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

The clocks go to wintertime in the early hours of tomorrow morning, and that extra hour in bed will be embraced by many before they realise that everything now starts early, too, because the days are drawing in.

I believe the change in wintertime hours is being debated at various levels, but I am a fan. Dark evenings make for long nights, but dark mornings make days even more challenging to face, and I, for one, have no problem with the early starts the hour-change demands of our sport.