FIRST and second in the show hunter pony starter stakes at Dublin don’t go forward for the Southside Contract and Carpet Cleaners championship, so while others were preparing for a final go-around last Sunday afternoon, most of those who had entered Ring 1 at 8am were already on the way home.

Luckily for Sharon Walsh who bred the winner, Pineview Remeo, and took the train down from Dundalk to see him, the O’Rourke family from Co Armagh weren’t in a rush to depart with the Barrera Duke Of Windsor grey on whom Lauren O’Rourke added victory in the starter stakes to that in the first ridden class last year.