When the trees and shrubs around the Boyd’s Quarries water grow to maturity it will be a spectacular fence and all around the main farm there are more trees planted to enhance the grounds. Across the road, the farm’s amazing rath has been opened up to provide the fort drop, fence 17 on the one-star track.

Aside from running this event, May is a pretty busy month on the equestrian front for Britt Megahey. His company, Barclay Communications, is joining forces with the Sloan family’s Bottle Green firm to sponsor the Grand Prix at Balmoral Park next Friday, while on the Friday of Tattersalls, where Britt’s son Harold has Chuckelberry entered in the CIC***, Barclay Communications are title sponsors of the evening race meeting at Down Royal.