IT was with great sadness that I learned last Friday night of the sudden death earlier in the day of Jim Allen, point-to-point enthusiast, sheep dealer and landowner of the equestrian centre and point-to-point track at Maralin - or Moira as he liked to call it. ‘

‘When the point-to-point was held in the other field the name was fine as that field is nearer Maralin; the field we now use is nearer Moira!’’ Big Jim said to me with passion back in 2006 when explaining how he used sheep to keep the ground right at the track.