WHILE other series in Irish pointing have come and gone, the Gain Mares’ Series remains on the calendar and next Sunday, April 2nd, the final takes place at Ballynoe.

Thirty years ago, running under the banner of Waterford Co-Op, the championship was won by Gerry Mulcaire on the Madden family’s Plassey Bridge, a 1982 Pitpan mare who had landed her maiden at Scariff that February.