Haven't got big money? Haven't Time proves there are still bargains to be had

In an era when big-money sums for young point-to-pointers has put a spotlight on the sport, there are still affordable horses for those on small budgets.

Take the example of four-year-old Haven’t Time, who won a maiden point-to-point by 30 lengths at a meeting in Warwickshire on Sunday, having been bought at Ascot last month for £600 (yes, that’s six hundred pounds – there are no noughts missing). Whether he would have won had the favourite – a hitherto unraced four-year-old – not fallen when narrowly ahead at the last is open to debate, but it would have been close.

The genius behind this £600 coup, Herefordshire trainer Sarah McQueen, knows a good horse, having led up and loved the 100-1 Grand National winner Mon Mome during ten seasons working as a groom for Venetia Williams. Mon Mome, now 18, lives at the McQueen family’s farm, “doing whatever he likes”.