EDIFICATION, who has already provided us with some memorable moments this season, bids to enhance his ‘rags to riches’ story when lining up in a Premier Handicap at Leopardstown on Saturday. I, like most others, could scarcely have imagined the horse would end up racing on Champions Weekend when he began his journey in a bottom grade handicap at Dundalk last winter.

My family are steeped in racing, so it was perhaps only natural that I would one day end up training horses. When I was growing up, my uncle Seamus Fahey had a licence, while two other uncles, Peter and Jarlath, were race-riding. Both have since graduated to the training ranks with plenty of success.