Improving youngster looks likely to step up again

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1pt winCheltenham Festival preview evenings can be great fun but they can certainly take their toll on the body and mind, and by the time you read this I'll have done three in a row and been on the wrong side of around 12 bottles of wine.

Gibraltar on Tuesday was particularly messy, largely because there was a casino in the hotel, enabling this paper's deputy Ireland editor David Jennings to rob me at poker in the early hours of the morning.

The pain is obviously self-inflicted, but more worrying is the inability to remember all the interesting snippets that you hear.