THEY say you need lots of runners for a good race but that certainly wasn’t the case at Loughbrickland last Saturday where the four-runner open contest served up one of the races of the season thus far.

In the end, it was the two main protagonists, Winged Leader (4/5 - 4/6 favourite and Mighty Stowaway (1/1 - 5/4), who took each other on from the third last and they had a titanic battle from there to the finish with nothing to separate them at the line.