IT is extremely rare for a horse bred in Co Donegal to win at one of the major Festival meetings so the Charles family from Donegal Town are right to be proud of Maple Mons who landed the BoyleSports Joseph R. O’Reilly Hunters Chase at Fairyhouse on Tuesday.

This was a third racecourse success for the nine-year-old Great Exhibition mare but the first under Barry O’Neill who has partnered the chesnut to eight of her 12 victories in point-to-points, most recently as last Saturday when they landed the mares’ open at Loughanmore.