WEATHERBYS CHAMPION BUMPER

Avenir D’Une Vie will be entered and he could run and he is the highest-rated bumper horse we have.

I thought Bacardys’ win at Christmas was very good. Very Much So was supposed to go jumping this year, but he could run. Another horse that was supposed to go jumping this year was Castello Sforza.

He looks like he might go for the bumper. They all have bits of form that give them a chance.

With Augusta Kate, we find her impossible to rate as you’ve seen what we see. She doesn’t show anything like that at home. She either doesn’t like our gallop or she doesn’t like the way we train her, but she doesn’t show any ability at home.

When I went to Listowel with her that day and Graham Wylie said: “Is she any good Willie as I want to put my friends into her?’’ I told him that I think we’ll win something with her and I was thinking a summer bumper and have a day out.

Then she went and won and then she went on and won a really good mares’ bumper.