Team player O'Neill gaining reward for persistence in a tough game

Alan Sweetman speaks to Lisa O'Neill, who broke her festival duck on Tiger Roll last week

A video has been doing the rounds on social media, since last week, of Tommy and Margaret O'Neill watching the closing stages of a race from Cheltenham. Courtesy of The Fox Inn Pub at Ballymadun, near Ashbourne, we see the couple "going ballistic", as the headline to the clip proclaims.

Excitement and anxiety mounts before unconfined joy and delight takes over as the O'Neills celebrate. Their daughter Lisa has just ridden the winner of the National Hunt Chase at Cheltenham on the Gordon Elliott-trained Tiger Roll.