THE Iveagh Foxhounds hunt some wonderful grass farmland. The meet was at Brague, which if you are driving towards Belfast, on your right is Loughbrickland Lough and Brague to the rear of the lough and is distinctive by its drumlin hills and neatly trimmed blackthorn hedges. It’s real horse country, and as so often happens on my way to meets in Northern Ireland, I often meet a couple of point-to-pointers coming down the road after exercise.

And this morning was no different, meeting a young horseman, Neil McKnight, who recently had a point-to-point winner at Loughanmore and has a couple more due to run. As I passed the old Orange Hall, I was a bit lost but I caught sight of Mark Maguire’s lorry and I knew I was in the right area. Mark informed me that it was a lawn meet.