COMBER owner/breeder Elizabeth ‘Hammy’ Hamilton considered herself to be doubly fortunate on Saturday at Toomebridge, especially after the Irish National Hunt Steeplechase Committee’s announcement on Tuesday that owners would once again be banned from attending point-to-points.

“I was lucky that I was able to attend during that short time owners were permitted to go to meetings and then lucky that she won,” said Hamilton in reference to her Stuart Crawford-trained Sketrick who, under the handler’s brother Ben, landed the JCB five-year-old and upwards mares’ maiden by five lengths following a lengthy absence from action.