IT is understandable that all the talk after the JT McNamara Munster National at Limerick on Sunday was about the winner Total Recall. It was an incident-packed race, we lost six horses on the way around, five of them at two of the fences. But you have to feel that Total Recall would have won even if all his rivals had stood up and run their races.

Willie Mullins’ horse won easily. Nursed around by Ruby Walsh at the back of the field from early, avoiding the carnage, he and Alpha Des Obeaux came away from their field from the top of the home straight.