With four National Hunt meetings and three fixtures on the level, punters should have a real spring in their step on Easter Monday.
Although the fare is admittedly low-key, a greater case from the purists' point of view can be made for the action in Ireland.
The Fairyhouse Festival is always a special few days and peaks on Monday with the Powers Whiskey Irish Grand National.
Won in impressive fashion by Butler's Cabin 12 months ago, the three-mile-five-furlong contest has attracted another strong field.
Tony Martin's Royal County Star currently heads the market but there are tons of stayers waiting in the wings who hold leading chances - Beef Or Salmon and Cailin Alainn, to name but a few.
The action at Fairyhouse shows no signs of abating on Tuesday, with the yearly spectacle of the Menolly Homes Handicap Hurdle, won last year by the useful Emmpat.
With the Flat campaign yet to hit full throttle in Britain, attentions on Saturday will switch to Nad Al Sheba for the Emirates Airline-sponsored Dubai World Cup.
This is a race all about Curlin.
The American Horse of the Year is a wonder and, having enjoyed a fine pipe-opener in Dubai in February, will be a very warm order to take his prize-money haul into the stratosphere.
Domestic Flat action at the weekend is spearheaded by Kempton, where the £35,000 intercasino.co.uk Rosebery Stakes and the intercasino.co.uk Magnolia Stakes take top billing.
There is also a decent card at Doncaster, on which the £25,000 Doncaster Shield is the highlight.
Both meetings are played out live in front of the Channel 4 cameras and are ably supplemented by jumps racing at Newbury.
The second leg of a two-day fixture, the Berkshire course gives the fairer sex a chance with the EBF/TBA Mares Only Final and the EBF Mares Only "National Hunt" Novices' Hurdle Final.
Both are of Listed calibre and both hold a cool £50,000 in prize-money.
FIXTURES (FLAT in capitals)
Monday: Chepstow, Fakenham, Huntingdon, Plumpton, REDCAR, WARWICK, YARMOUTH.
Tuesday: Fontwell, PONTEFRACT, Sedgefield.
Wednesday: SOUTHWELL, Kempton, Newcastle, WOLVERHAMPTON (evening).
Thursday: Ayr, Exeter, LINGFIELD, WOLVERHAMPTON (evening).
Friday: KEMPTON (evening), LINGFIELD, Newbury, WOLVERHAMPTON.
Saturday: Bangor, DONCASTER (CH4), KEMPTON (CH4), Newbury (CH4), Stratford, WOLVERHAMPTON (evening).
Sunday: Hexham, Kempton, Wincanton.
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