ON his first day back riding in Ireland since he received that colossal 22-day ban in France early last month, Seamie Heffernan enjoyed a day of mixed fortunes which yielded a double but also a four-day careless riding suspension.

The rider’s brace began with a feature race success aboard Laburnum in the Listed Irish Stallion Farms EBF Hurry Harriet Stakes where the Irish Oaks fourth accounted for her stablemate and Epsom’s Oaks second Ennistymon.