At 7.25am the alarm went off, before 7.30 he was out in the kennel, checking on Glanmore Susan; she was fine, even better than fine – “Hopping off the ground!”

CANITOMCAN, owned by the Toms The Boss Syndicate from Mallow, Co. Cork and trained by Kathleen Murphy, won the O’Gorman Cup at the Milford Open Coursing meeting yesterday.