Brilliant Ruby Walsh the star of ITV show - plus plenty of heroes on the track

Now that it’s Cheltenham from the sofa, I hope that, on ITV, Ruby Walsh, Tony McCoy and Mick Fitzgerald know what they’re talking about. Ed Chamberlin is in charge of them.

If P. G. Wodehouse, of Jeeves and Wooster fame, was still alive (he hasn’t been for the last 46 years and I don’t suppose he’ll start again now), he’d say that Chamberlin was “a good egg, top hole.”

To start with, it looks as if Chamberlin and Francesca Cumani (a hat noticeably more exotic than Luke Harvey’s flat cap), have turned up on the wrong day, with no one else there. To make up for the lack of racegoers the whole team, including whoever’s responsible for all the clever pictures and graphics, give it their all. Later, Chamberlin goes the extra mile by putting on his spectacles, so that he can see as well as talk.