APART from all the wheeling and dealing in the corridors of power, harness racing remains a sport and the action on the island’s best known track, Portmarnock Raceway, was fiercely competitive.

As the season opened in late April, it looked like it would be Cloghran-based Alan Wallace’s year as in the opening weeks he fired off winner after winner, doing particularly well with the ‘Trotteur Francais’ horses.