A LARGE crowd enjoyed Sunday’s lovely weather at Downpatrick, where the 2025 season opened with the track’s biggest race of the year, the Randox Ulster National.

Among spectators was Los Angeles eventing Olympian Margaret Creighton (née Tolerton), who loves her racing, but whose main function on Sunday was to fill the role of mother-of-the-bride-to-be at the hen party of her daughter, Charlotte.