FORMER flat jockey turned dairy farmer Paul Scallan fared best of the Irish raiders when second in last Saturday’s Golden Button Challenge which was revived after a four-year break at the new venue of Manor Farm, Longdon.

Run by members of the Ledbury Hunt, the race covers three miles of Gloucestershire countryside interspersed with 25 imposing hedges and ditches. Irish winners of the Challenge in the past were jockeys Paul Carberry (2009) and Eddie Ahern (2007).