MANY congratulations to former Kildare Pony Club member Max Browne who recorded his first success on the racecourse at Naas on Sunday when the Paul Nolan-trained Latest Exhibition ran out the four-length winner of the concluding bumper.

Max, who participated in all Pony Club activities, will be best remembered riding the appaloosa stallion Bravo Bruce who he also competed in open hunter trials and hunted as often as he could. While still at school, the now 19-year-old was apprenticed to John Oxx, who gave him a couple of rides on the flat, but he was always destined for a National Hunt career and, on leaving school, joined the Co Meath yard of Gordon Elliott who gave him some rides over jumps.