SIX of the seven winners at the hunters’ chase evening at Fontwell last Thursday were Irish-bred but it’s the odd-one-out, Darwins Fox, who concerns this column as the French-bred is trained by Derrylin’s David Christie for Downpatrick-born David Maxwell.

Successful for the pair at Leicester in March, the 11-year-old Kahyasi gelding had since finished sixth of 28 in the Foxhunters at Aintree under Barry O’Neill (Maxwell having preferred to ride the fifth-placed Mendip Express over the National fences) and, with the owner back on board, fourth of seven behind Sizing Solution at Cork over Easter.