THESE are exciting times for Alyssa O’Neill. On Wednesday, while travelling to Rincoola where she won a section of the four-year-old qualifier, she learned she had achieved a 2.1 in product design from the Dublin Institute of Technology and, in two weeks, she starts working at Horseware in Dundalk.

Happy enough with her own living arrangements in the Co Louth town, the search is now on to find a livery yard for Colacentric who recorded one of only three clear rounds in section B on Wednesday when completing on a score of 313.85 points. O’Neill’s good ridden display mark of 98 can be attributed to the help she receives from Ross O’Hare.