“NO seller’s remorse, he couldn’t have gone to better people,” said Seamus Lehane after Ballard Highway Lad won the coveted All-Ireland three-year-old final at Bannow and Rathangan for his new owner, John Burchill.

15 three-year-olds lined out for visiting UK judge Rebecca Curtis and John Lenihan, and it was Skibbereen man Burchill who topped the final line-up with the brown gelding bred in Killucan, Co Westmeath by Michael Carey. He had bought the Another Pleasure son from fellow West Cork exhibitor Lehane last year for daughter Deirdre to produce under saddle next year.