BANBRIDGE farrier Mark O’Hare didn’t have too far to travel to notch up his sixth bumper success of the season on St Patrick’s Day as he partnered Delvino to victory in the Johnstown Houston Mares Flat Race at Down Royal.

Sent off as the 4/5 favourite following her second-place finish on her only other start a month previously at Navan, the Dylan Thomas five-year-old is trained by Dermot McLoughlin for her Magherafelt breeder, Tilly Conway. The bay is the seventh of eight recorded foals, six of whom are fillies, out of the Southern Halo mare Alliata, dam also of the McLoughlin-trained three-time winner Avellino (by Muhtathir).