YOU could make the Welsh National even better. You could run it on the first or second Saturday in January for starters. Keep it on the date on which the rescheduled event landed this year, and on which it has landed on several occasions in the recent past.

As things stand, Welsh National day, 27th December, is a crowded day. They have good meetings at Kempton and Wetherby in Britain, and we have Leopardstown and Limerick here.