CONGRATULATIONS to Ado McGuinness and Stephen Thorne on the great Galway success for Saltonstall in the Colm Quinn BMW Mile Handicap. This was the biggest success on the flat for the North Co Dublin trainer, and the winner was bought by Thorne at the Goffs Horses In Training Sale last year for €44,000.

Until his sale the now five-year-old, Cheveley Park Stud-bred son of Pivotal (Polar Falcon) was a winner at two over seven furlongs at Limerick, and a mile handicap winner at the Curragh at four. Trained by Michael Halford, he beat just one home on his final two starts for the Kildare handler in large fields at Galway and the Curragh.