Thanks Ex RubyLight and for your comments.
I will be doing a review of my points based system at the end of the season to see whether more weight should be given to certain classes of race.
It looks as though Skelton has the trainers title sown up whichever way we approach it this season and rightly so as he has been consistently banging in the winners throughout much of the season, and surely anyone who can train 200 plus winners in a season, which I think he’ll achieve, shouldn’t be pipped again by someone only targeting the Spring Festivals and races run in April in the UK?