Cathy Hamilton saddles her first Irish winner after a five-year wait

Cathy Hamilton is a trainer for whom the old saying steeped in racing does seem to apply. A former permit-holder in her native Dorset, it has taken more than five years for her to sample success in Ireland, but that was finally achieved when her homebred Carrignagapple ran out a game winner of the hunter chase.

Under 7lb claiming amateur Conor Murphy, the son of Apple Tree battled on well having taken it up two out and kept going better than his rivals in accounting for Glorious Galway by nine lengths.

“I used to have a permit in England and then I moved over here to Mullinahone in Tipperary five-and-a-half years ago,” said Hamilton. “I really milk cows for a living.