DROMARA trainer Caroline McCaldin saddled her first racecourse winner in Ireland when the Johnny Barry-ridden Samurai Cracker won the hunters’ chase at Limerick on Friday, December 27th.

The 2013 Mr Dinos gelding, who is owned by the trainer’s husband Alan, had previously just raced between the flags, winning a novice riders’ maiden on his fourth start at Mainstown last January and finishing second three times in five outings since then.