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.





