THE Mister Mat gelding Send For Paddy, who won 12 races between the flags and a maiden hunters’ chase, made a great start to his new career when landing the retraining racehorse to riding horse class at Lurgan show last Saturday.

Still owned by the Armstrong family, the 14-year-old is being produced by Burnside’s Molly McCrory who hopes to qualify him for Dublin, a goal shared by his connections who arrived en masse at the show having interrupted their task of power-hosing the yard.