Lots of pearl-clutching is going on in racing at any prospect of a future Sinn Fein led government. This seems primarily due to a statement issued in 2017 where the party called for an end to state support of the Horse & Greyhound Fund until reform of governance and regulation was implemented within the two sectors. Perhaps inevitably over the last week that's been racing's specific focus rather more than broader questions as to how a quarter of voters in this state voted to put apologists for killers into power.

It was almost as if the stars aligned that I would ride my 150th point-to-point winner on Arctic Skipper at the Tallow Point-To-Point, which is run on Jimmy Mangan’s land next door to my home place.