Flexibility with fixtures key to adapting to changing weather conditions

There is a certain inevitability that, when you get around to writing about a particular weather phenomenon which is affecting ground conditions, the wind will literally change on you. 

Willie Mullins said as much in the first of two in-depth pieces in the Racing Post about the unseasonable dry spell on both sides of the Irish Sea.

"It's Ireland. Rain is going to come sometime," was Mullins' pithy summary of how concerned or otherwise he remains – although, almost a week on, Navan's Troytown Chase card is being run on watered ground.