1 Irish Champions Weekend: We have not learned too much about Irish Champions Weekend yet, except, perhaps, that when you have a group of like-minded people pulling in the same direction, pulling together in a common cause, there is no telling what you can achieve.

It is only 18 months since Joe Foley floated the idea past the committee of the Irish European Breeders’ Fund. The temptation was surely to say no, it can’t be done, you can’t move races, you’d never get agreement from the European Pattern Committee. But it turns out, you can and they did.