IN most weeks, the horseracing highlight that kicks off this column pretty much picks itself, but that is not so this time, and it is not down to a surfeit of choice!

Remarkably little has gone on in Ireland and Britain in the immediate post-Fairyhouse period. There was just one turf flat meeting in April (Navan on the 7th) before the start of the Grand National meeting on Thursday; that was in large part down to unseasonally bad weather, but the flat meetings which were lost were hardly of great consequence anyway. Jumps racing’s lull was more to be expected.