IT was good to see Downpatrick-born amateur David Maxwell have a horse with David Christie this season and the Derrylin trainer repaid that support by saddling Darwins Fox to win the two-mile hunters’ chase at Leicester last Friday.

Since he started training, Christie has developed a deserved reputation for revitalising older horses and a case in point is Top Twig, who is pictured enjoying his retirement in Maghera. The 18-year-old is still looked after by Rhonda Armstrong, his groom and work rider while at the Co Fermanagh yard.