Sir, - The Joseph R O’Reilly Hunters Chase, run on the final day of the recent Fairyhouse festival, commemorates the honorary secretary of the Ward Union Hunt race meeting, who retired in 1910 after 28 years’ service.

Inaugurated in 1934 and run for every year since, the Joseph R. O’Reilly Hunters Chase can seldom have generated more heat or less light than this year’s renewal.