UNLIKE most who hope to line up for the Horseware Event Riders Challenge Race, Killinick’s Clare Lambert has some race-riding experience. Unlike most jockeys, Clare has a 100% strike rate as she won a ladies’ bumper at Limerick’s 2003 Christmas meeting on her only proper racecourse ride.

Her mount in the 12-runner race that December afternoon was a four-year-old named Present Abbey who was trained by the rider’s sister Ann and ran in the colours of their cousin, Patrick Lambert. Patrick bred the Presenting mare and has since bred eight foals out of her including Get Help, a five-year-old gelding by Gold Well, sire of the two-star international eventer Goldman.