THE sun shone down on the opening day of the Fermanagh Hunt’s two-day meeting at Necarne which saw just 31 horses declared.

Nonetheless, there was some thrilling action in the four-year-old mares’ maiden as the Patrick Turley-trained Windsor Wife (5/4 - 9/4 joint-favourite) and Ciaran Murphy’s Treadonmydreams (3/1 - 8/1) took up the running from the back of three out, injecting significant pace, and battled neck and neck to the line as the judges were unable to separate the pair and a dead-heat was called.