WE could lead off this column with some locally-trained winners since last Thursday week but, instead, we are starting with a mare trained in Co Kildare by Philip Dempsey who landed the opening Total Event Rental Beginners Chase at Punchestown on Sunday, Kates Hill.

The nine-year-old Jeremy bay, who justified 15/8 favouritism by half a length under Donagh Meyler runs in the colours of her breeder, Patsy Smyth, for whom she landed a mares’ maiden and a mares’ winners’ race in the 2020/’21 season, when trained by Patrick Turley, and who he saddled himself to claim a mares’ open in December 2021.