DESCRIBING Philip Carberry as having been around the block once or twice is hardly wide of the mark, considering he’s now in his ninth season as a professional jockey.

Seemingly from nowhere, Martin Brassil has emerged as one of this country’s rising training talents over the past two years. But, as Declan Colley discovered, the quietly spoken Curragh handler prefers to let his charges do the talking for him.

A GENERALLY very poor programme at Fairyhouse this afternoon is redeemed a little by the presence of In Time’s Eye in the Fairyhouse racecourse Maiden.