Robert Cooper sees blue skies ahead as Festival warms up to fever pitch

It is tempting fate but there cannot be much more water in those clouds. If history is repeated, rare I know, February should be a cracking month’s racing if Noah’s Ark remains parked on top of Mount Ararat. There are no problems weather-wise in Dubai as their Carnival wends its way towards the $30.5million World Cup meeting on March 30. Last year in the UK and maybe Ireland, we experienced the driest February this century and, all being well, the Dublin Racing Festival at Leopardstown on Februa...