FEBRUARY 1st every year is becoming a key date for all the major Irish and UK harness racing yards. The date is the deadline for first payments for the annual Vincent Delaney Memorial Weekend, and the organisers of the premium meeting unveiled the entries recently.

Every year industry figures wait anxiously to see the mixed bag of two-year-olds entered for the VDM. The feature race is now in its eighth year and has offered separate colt and fillies’ divides since 2016.