LAST minute farrier visits are often needed at Dublin but a ‘sole-destroying’ dilemma of another kind took place last Thursday.

Sean Hoare, who was leading his father Pat’s Moylough Legacy, had to make a quick swap when the sole came off one of his shoes at the start of the Irish Draught stallion parade. Fortunately, his friend Steve Finn was at the ringside and obligingly swapped shoes in one of the quickest pit stops seen in Ring 1.