DENIS Currie had a busy Saturday at Glenpatrick. He finished runner-up in the EI110 (Amateur) on his 16-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding Merlot and then oversaw the warm-up of his grandson Isaac McCarthy, who was to win the EI90 on Denis’s former mount, the 21-year-old ISH gelding Arodstown Aramis.

Currie then had the pleasurable task of presenting the day’s landowner and fellow EI110 (Amateur) rider Britt Megahey, with a trophy recognising ‘his supremacy in the All-Ireland EI110 Amateur league last year’.