IT is over two and a half years since the number of declarations necessitated four divides on the one card, but that proved to be the case on Sunday at Borris House when 10 races were required to accommodate no fewer than 110 runners.

Blackhall, who won the ninth race on the marathon card, would certainly not have the typical profile of a three-mile point-to-pointer; however the six-year-old managed to defy an 899-day absence to win a division of the older maiden for Barry Stone and Ellen Doyle.