I ALWAYS look forward to the Galway Blazers meet at Aille Cross at the home of the legendary horseman and Blazers field master Willie Leahy.

Why? I suppose my association goes back more than 60 years having been reared and schooled in nearby Loughrea when, with my school friend Pat O’Neill, we hacked Willie’s hirelings to and from meets often as far as Athenry, Oranmore, and Tallyho Cross.