BRITISH trainer Ben Pauling will be heading to Punchestown next week without the pressure of a big runner, determined to enjoy himself and hoping to break his Irish duck with a winner in a couple of the lesser events.

In 12 months’ time, things could be very different, given that his star novice chasers, the sidelined The Jukebox Man and the equally likeable Handstands, will by then have graduated to open company.