'You are now looking at a case where there are only two betting races on a day'

I am the point-to-point secretary for the County Clare Hunt and we stage fixtures at Bellharbour and Quakerstown each year.

It's all hands on deck for us at the moment as we are running an additional fixture at Quakerstown on Sunday week, and the date became available to us only quite recently.

We had initially applied to run a fixture in the autumn, but that wasn’t successful. When Mainstown had to cancel their fixture and the date became available we put in a request to run the event and we were successful.