The Aintree festival has passed and sadly we didn’t get the outcome we needed. We left the festival with a £320,000 deficit behind title leader Nicky Henderson. It leaves us with Everest to climb to try to retain the title. But it’s not all doom and gloom. Last weekend Contre Tous brought up the 152nd winner of the season. Paul’s best ever tally is 155, so fingers crossed we can surpass that tally as it would be a terrific achievement.

Furthermore, we have earned over £2.1 million in prize money and with two Grade 1 winners, the season has been fairly successful all in all.