BALNASLOW, the hunter chaser much loved by the late Peggy Hagan, is adapting well to his new career outside racing and has already picked up rosettes, in two different codes, under Islandmagee’s Shannon Baird.

The 2007 Presenting gelding, who won a point-to-point maiden at Loughanmore in October 2011 for landowner Wilson Dennison and resident trainer Colin McKeever, was at one time in the care of Willie Mullins, for whom he won a bumper, a maiden hurdle and two chases, and then briefly in the Gordon Elliott yard.