OKAY, it doesn’t always work, but whatever they do to organise good weather for their meetings certainly weaved its magic last Tuesday for Family Fun Raceday at Downpatrick.

I don’t know about others, but I get totally distracted looking at the track’s social media photographs of racegoers and, while there might have been the odd grumpy face in some of Tuesday’s images, they were mostly of ‘shiny, happy people’ of all ages, enjoying the sun and atmosphere.