THERE wasn’t a dry eye in the McCarthy household when their 11-year-old Irish-bred Cavalier Rusticana sailed over that huge red €30,000 Land Rover Puissance wall at the RDS, carrying Derry’s Daniel Coyle to a spectacular joint win with Antrim’s Christopher Megahey on Seapatrick Cavalier Cruise in Saturday’s highlight class from 17 starters.

Owned by mother and daughter Mary and Gillian McCarthy, the win brought tears to their eyes as it was Mary’s late mother, also Mary, who named the talented horse as a four-year-old.