LAST weekend at the Punchestown Festival, a line was drawn under the 2020-2021 National Hunt season. Now it is the turn of the flat is set to take centre-stage over the coming weeks and months. It is important to remember the champions on and off the track who unfortunately didn’t get to savour the sense of occasion we would have hoped for them this year.

The Association of Irish Racecourses (AIR) would like to congratulate and recognise the incredible achievements of each of the champions of jump racing; JP McManus, Willie Mullins, Paul Townend, Simon Torrens, Patrick Mullins and Jody Townend.