MANY congratulations to Junior event rider Paddy Smullen, who partnered his first winner on the racecourse, when the Dermot Weld-trained Grappa Nomino landed the two-mile amateur riders’ handicap at Dundalk last Friday evening at odds of 20/1.

The 17-year-old rides out one lot each morning for the Rosewell House trainer before attending Leinster Senior College Newbridge, where he is in fifth year. However, he is not lost to eventing and hopes to represent Ireland at the European Junior championships this year on the Irish Sport Horse gelding, Avalon Romulus.