THE Punchestown Festival will be dealt with from a time point of view in next week’s Time Will Tell and there was not a whole lot going on in the jumps world in the immediate post-Aintree slot.

The best winning timefigure of all (154) came from Theinval, who ran a remarkably quick time for the seldom used extended two-mile chase on the opening of Ayr’s Scottish Grand National card, not the only race which suggested the ground was by then quicker than the “good” officially reported.