BASED overlooking the seaport of Larne, trainer Stuart Crawford is ideally suited for raids on tracks in Scotland and the north of England and usually, at this time of year, his trucks regularly leave Newlands Farm for the short drive to the ferry.

However, Crawford, like everyone else, is waiting on the easing of restrictions and the resumption of racing in Ireland and Britain, using this downtime to do a lot of jobs around the yard such as power-washing and painting, fence-mending and general tidying-up while he is just starting to make haylege.