FORMER event rider Ciaran Murphy saddled his first runner as a fully fledged trainer at Fairyhouse on Tuesday week last, January 12th, and recorded his first success in that sphere just four days later at the same Co Meath track.

Fairyhouse was, of course, where Murphy’s now assistant, Dot Love, successfully signed off her training career recently and where the Charlestown Stud yard posted its biggest win to date when Liberty Counsel won the 2013 running of the Ladbrokes Irish Grand National.