PUNTERS might not have been happy but there couldn’t have been a better result to Saturday’s SIS, Proud Sponsors of Irish Racing (Pro-Am) INH Flat Race at Down Royal, as the final contest of the 2026 BetVictor Festival of Racing was won by the locally-owned, trained, ridden and bred 100/1 shot Staton.

The Diamond Boy five-year-old runs in the colours of Co Antrim’s Karen McNeilly, who started the bay in the point-to-point field, sending him out to finish fifth on his only run as a four-year-old at Castle Irvine, Necarne and then third and fourth at Tyrella and Portrush last March.