Looking forward to Chepstow's curtain raiser

After a quiet betting week last week,this Saturday sees the first jumps meeting of the year at Chepstow.In the "good old days " this meeting was covered by the beeb and was widely considered to be the start of the jumps season proper.It no longer enjoys terrestrial tv coverage ,but never the less does signify that the winter season is stepping up a notch or two,and things will certainly start to get much busier soon.  Optimum racing had two runners last week,both dissappointing,Be Ashored who in fairness jumped well on his chase debut,finished 6th,and Saqil who was novicy to say the least over the first 2 or 3 on his hurdles debut finished 5th.        i've no doubt both will do better in the future.     I'll be at Exeter on thursday and hopefully  Chepstow  on Saturday later this week,very much looking forward to the rest of the season,but no doubt remembering the days when this Chepstow fixture carried a lot more significance