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Ruby Walsh: Gaelic Warrior, Lossiemuth, and the memories that lip up jumps season

Galway will be on the horizon before we all know it but for now, many of National Hunt's before horses have earned a few weeks in the field
Ruby Walsh: Gaelic Warrior, Lossiemuth, and the memories that lip up jumps season

Paul Townend celebrates winning the Ladbrokes Punchestown Gold Cup with Gaelic Warrior. Pic: ©INPHO/Morgan Treacy

In the blink of an eye, we are standing in Punchestown and another season is over. People will have all their own memories of what happened in the season gone by, but as I sit to type this with my two middle fingers, I know I don’t have the space to recount all of mine.

Where do you start and what do you cast aside? The John Durkan has to make the cut when Gaelic Warrior blazed around County Kildare, with Fact To File to the pin of his collar to follow him, join him, and pass him, only for Gaelic Warrior to pull it out from the fire.

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