It was timely that Night and Light should progress to head the field in the ISH five-year-old class at Ballinamona.

Ridden by Michael O’Toole and owned by her breeder Peggy Murphy, Night and Light showed precocious promise last year, scoring twice from only six runs. By Cavalier Two For Joy, she is the seventh recorded foal out of the thoroughbred mare Cost A Lot (by Mummys Luck), who according to Murphy “ran 20 times and never fell once!”