THE focus of attention for National Hunt enthusiasts last weekend, ahead of this week’s marvellous festival at Punchestown, was on racing at Ayr in Scotland, and Cheltenham in England.

Just seven days after the Randox Grand National at Aintree it was the turn of the Scottish equivalent, and this resulted in an emotional success for the seven-year-old Kitty’s Light, a son of Nathaniel (Galileo) and the winning Refuse To Bend (Sadler’s Wells) mare Daraiyna. This was a well deserved blacktype win for the gelding, trained by Christian Williams, and his sixth career success.