There are both stark and Starck reminders, of very different times, at this one-off West Cork home on the verdant banks of the Argideen River.

Eugene O’Sullivan’s The Blarney Rose lit up yesterday’s extremely wet Boulta point-to-point fixture by destroying the opposition in the open lightweight.

Many of those present at yesterday’s well-attended Lismore point-to-point left adamant they had witnessed a future superstar when Paul Cashman’s Present View destroyed the opposition in the second division of the Four-Year-Old Geldings’ Maiden.