DRIVING from Piltown down to Mallow through the storm and heavy rain in the early hours of Sunday morning, Daniel Alderson wasn’t thinking so much of withdrawing his four rides but wondering if the event would even go ahead!

Belline Equestrian’s stable jockey was subsequently delighted that the Duloherys were never considering that move as he recorded his first CNC1* win in Ireland with Richard Ames’s home-bred mare RCA Royal Mist who, in completing on her flat work score of 31, was also posting her first Eventing Ireland victory.