As the Sam Curling team celebrate their 100th winner at Aghabullogue earlier this month, it is notable that in the season he celebrates that milestone, the Tipperary-based handler once again has a horse in training for Wilson Dennison.

It was a horse carrying the famous black and white quartered silks of the leading northern-based owner that provided Curling with his initial success, when Royal Reveille won a four-year-old maiden at Glenbane in October 2009.