COLIN Halliday had three rides in the EI100 class at Tullymurry on Saturday, retiring two of his mounts following problems at fence nine, the ditch to skinny, but finishing a close-up fourth on The Irish Factor whose total of 46.8 included 12.8 cross-country time penalties.

Owned by Harold Lusk, the five-year-old is by The Echo Factor out of the Master Imp mare Beechland Imp.