IF we thought that a lot of the news last week didn’t show racing in a good light, well, hold the back page, this week has been much worse.

This week we had a bit of a farce of a start in Clonmel, a drone operator over Punchestown taken to court for breach of Covid restrictions, headlines in the UK falsely implying that racing was taking precedence over Covid vaccinations at Newbury and Taunton racecourse, and we lost a very talented rider to the sport. Linger on the headlines and David Mullins might not be the only one to fall out of love with the game!