CONOR O’Dwyer finished up as a jockey riding a winner at the Fairyhouse Easter Festival on March 24th, doing what he had done best for a quarter of a century on a horse called Mister Top Notch.

It was a common observation at the time that there could not have been a more appropriately named conveyance for the then 41-year-old’s signing off than the horse he had previously steered to a seven-length triumph in the Grade 1 Dr PJ Moriarty Novice Chase for owner Marie Cronin and trainer Davy Fitzgerald.