THE Purfield name is one that many in the business of breeding, or the sport of racing, will know well. It is also a name not to mess with when it comes to golf.

There was quite an amount of pleasure, and no shortage of pride, in the village of Moynalvey, near Summerhill in Co Meath, on Wednesday when news came through that The Mean Queen had scaled the heights of jump racing in the USA and won the Grade 1 Jonathan Sheppard Hurdle at Saratoga.