HATS off to the team at Fairyhouse for ensuring Friday’s rescheduled fixture was able to take place, because the meeting served up a heart-warming result to the Michael O’Sullivan & Lorna Brooke Ireland V Britain Qualified Riders’ Challenge Handicap Chase.

In the first running of the race to feature the name of Michael O’Sullivan in the title, it was hugely fitting that the much-missed rider’s brother Alan claimed the spoils on Hitthehayson, delivering a cracking ride on a chasing debutant, who has been in the form of his life lately.