HARRY Knows’ domination of the trotting ranks continued at Annaghmore last Sunday, but for once he was upstaged for the headline story of the meeting by another winner. Pa Crawford’s Micky The Marcher threw up several journalist’s angles as he won a humble little late season maiden in a time of 2.07.2.

Micky The Marcher (5/2) was the first driving win of the year for the irrepressible Buster Gilligan, a great supporter of racing in the North and Cork. Buster told The Irish Field: “There’s a bit of a story with this fella. He was in trouble at birth; he couldn’t break out of the bag of waters. The vet thought he would die, or end up brain damaged, but he came through it.”