ONE Riding Club member with more of an interest than most in last Saturday’s Longines Breeders’ Cup Turf (Grade 1) race at Del Mar, which was won by the Willie Mullins-trained Ethical Diamond, was Rachel Carton who first taught the successful jockey, Dylan Browne McMonagle, how to ride.

Secretary of the Letterkenny Riding Club and PRO of the Donegal District of the vast West Region of the AIRC, Rachel didn’t get down to The Curragh on Sunday to celebrate Dylan’s win in California and his crowning as champion jockey as she was far too busy looking after her very mixed yard.