By Dan Walsh
The point-to-point statisticians and historians will be scratching their heads tonight following amazing returns from Ballyknock, Co. Cork, where Colin Bowe saddled the winner and runner-up with the same riders up in three different races! What a way to achieve a midweek treble.
Barry O’Neill rode the three winners and Bertie Finn followed him home on all occasions. It was a sequence of events that most likely has never happened before in the history of point-to-point racing.
First up was the maiden race for four-year-old mares where Frost Moon in the Milestone Bloodstock Ltd colours scored by a neck over Maria Kavanagh’s Push Push.
Next was Speculateur in division two of the maiden race for four-year-old geldings who had nine lengths to spare over Robyn’s Jet, and the magic treble came in the maiden race for five-year-old geldings with Detroit Maverick getting a three lengths advantage over Devilsrollthedice.
The Wexford stables success didn’t stop with the O’Neill/Bowe supremacy; Bowe’s neighbour Matthew Flynn O’Connor from Ballycrystal, Kiltealy, saddled newcomer Risky Obsession who won by a head in the first division of the maiden race for four-year-old geldings ridden by Wicklow rider Brian Lawless.
And Michael Goff, Clondaw, Ferns enjoyed a winner too – Passing Diamond by three lengths in the Winner of One Race and a third career winner for Boolavogue rider Matt Gahan.
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