LAST Saturday’s renewal of the Golden Button Challenge, a three-mile cross-country race over 25 natural fences in Gloucestershire, attracted a large group of Irish riders to the Ledbury Hunt country.

Among the many Irish-bred horses in the race was Lightning Tunes who, under Nile O’Rourke, won an older geldings’ maiden at Tinahely in January for the Peter Maher yard. The eight-year-old Milan gelding was well-fancied on Saturday being partnered by former National Hunt jockey turned international show jumper, Paul Carberry, winner of the Challenge in 2009.