Ruby Walsh: Three racing wishes — Fill Cheltenham, bolster Aintree's Thursday and reignite Epsom Derby

Racing will not gain the mainstream attention it deserves at this level if it goes toe-to-toe with rugby and the Premier League.

The bush telegraph is also flooded with stories of proposed tweaks to the Cheltenham Festival but restoration should be the aim, not change. Pic: Harry Murphy/Sportsfile

By Monday lunchtime, all I was reading was Albert Einstein for the 2000 Guineas. Things move quick. Gaelic Warrior hadn’t even led Lossiemouth and Il Etait Temps through the village of Leighlinbridge for their homecoming parade. 

But already, it was ok, what's next? Ribee had won the Lincolnshire on Sunday under Declan McDonagh for Micheal Mulvaney at the Curragh’s opening meeting, and Ballydoyle held its media morning Monday. The horse named after the man who developed the theory of relativity, brought the Cheltenham stories to an end, and the gravity of the world we live in is what's next.