IT has been a quiet period for Northern-bred horses but there was one success last Saturday at Kilbeggan where the Court Cave mare Don’t Bet On It defied her odds of 33/1 to win the concluding bumper by one and three-quarter lengths.

Maintaining the good run of Co Meath trainer Matthew Smith, whose brother Kevin was recording his first success in the saddle on his 12th ride, the five-year-old was bred by the late Brian Kilpatrick. She was consigned through Jeremy Maxwell’s The Glebe House Stud as a foal to the 2014 November National Hunt Sale at Tattersalls where Smith, the trainer, purchased her for just €2,000.