AN excellent season for trainer David Christie and owner Ray Nicholas continued last Thursday week at Clonmel where Rob James partnered their Some Man to a comfortable victory in the maiden hunters’ chase.

In her report on the meeting in last Saturday’s paper, Claire Barry wrote that it took Christie three and three-quarter hours to drive from Derrylin to the Co Tipperary track. It took Nicholas and his support team just slightly less to travel down from Belfast but a lot longer to get home as they stayed overnight!