At that stage she was an owner after Captain Starlight had won one of his two Armidale Cups for her then husband and leading HNWRA trainer Tim Martin.

On Monday she was in the saddling enclosure for the first time since those wonderful  days and in the winner’s stall with Massacre celebrating her first winner as a trainer.

“It’s so nice to do it here in Armidale,”  O’Gorman said.

“It brings back some wonderful memories. 

“We were only joking with Terry Burke and Jim Dedes before the race that the last time I was in here Captain Starlight won the Cup.”

O’Gorman is now based at Scone where she has 11 in work but just two racing at the moment.

The other racing proposition, Pop A Bottle, was her first runner at Scone last Friday and finished third to Invincible Eagle, beaten a short half head by a long head.

“It was also nice to get that first win out of the way too,” she said after Massacre’s victory.

“I’ve got to thank Gerald Ryan and the owners for sending me such a nice horse (Massacre). 

“They have been great friends and supporters for a long while. 

“I first rode him work at the farm when we broke him and then pre-trained him for Gerald.

“I liked him then.

“He did it easily today too, won by a couple of lengths.”

It was a good “kill”, she said, for the three-year-old gelding who was having his fifth start and coming off a 3.8len 5th to More Than Frank at Wyong.