BASIL Valentine, who last rode between the flags during the 2002/2003 campaign, was the easy winner of the Kildare Foxhounds’ members, subscribers and hunt staff race at their point-to-point in Punchestown last Sunday.

In winning this non-thoroughbred hunt race on Kilcormick, Valentine was bringing up a ‘double’ for the bay’s owner/trainer Peter Maher who had earlier saddled Albert Weld’s Enniskillen (Benny Walsh) to win the confined farmers’ race for the third year in a row.