IT is good that the National Hunt seasons in Ireland and in Britain come to their respective conclusions on the same day. It means that you can crown the champions in both jurisdictions today. Then it’s dials all back to zero tomorrow and off we go again.

Bet365 (say: Whitbread) Gold Cup day brings down the curtain in Britain, at Sandown. It’s good too that it’s an all National Hunt card as opposed to a mixed card, as it used to be. The flat lads had their day yesterday.