Patrick, fittingly, gets his day in the sun

Patrick’s day? You bet it was.

And about time, you could say, given the first Festival win for Patrick Kelly with Mall Dini in yesterday’s Pertemps Network Final arrived a good 26 years after the Galway trainer first pitched up here with a horse and hope in tow.

Art Trail was his first offering back in 1990. That ended with a broken leg.