SOME of my earliest memories are of point-to-pointing with Dad when I was a small boy and he was race riding. In those days, he was riding out for Ian Duncan, Ian Ferguson and later Colin McKeever. I would have been in and out of those yards with him all the time. Dad would have ridden in both point-to-points, hunter chases and bumpers as an amateur.

I have great memories as a small boy sitting in the weigh tent at point-to-points with Enda Bolger, J.T. McNamara and Tony Martin, and overhearing stories and the craic between them all.