Club chairman James Kernan was course builder for the day and his tracks were more widely lauded than the weather. Riders in the morning’s higher graded classes had to endure the worst of the elements, but did so with good humour.

The Castle Hill and Castle Leslie clubs recorded two wins apiece, the former landing the concluding primary class through Alison Molloy and the evergreen veteran Hilltop Festy, a 1993 grey gelding by Ashfield Festy.