By Dan Walsh at Peppards Castle
Yellow Warning, trained by Ellen Doyle at Coolgarrow, Enniscorthy,and ridden by Brian Dunleavy, won the four-year-old maiden race at today’s Island point-to-point at Peppards Castle by a short head under pleasant autumn sunshine.
Yellow Warning pipped Jetaway Mountain in the Jay Brennan colours and trained at Blackwater by Martin Corrigan with Shane Butler in the saddle. It was the closest finish of the day.
Champion rider Barry O’Neill scored a double and leads the national point-to-point rider’s championship with eight winners since the beginning of the new season.
First up for O’Neill was aboard Idaho Expresso for the David Christie stables in the maiden race for five- and six-year-old mares and half an hour later added the five-year-old geldings maiden contest on the Colin Bowe trained Ponte Verda in the colours of Maria Kavanagh from Arklow. Six lengths to spare for the latter.
Double Ten in the colours of the Monbeg Farm Racing Partnership scored by seven lengths under Donal O’Connor for the Cormac Doyle stables in the four-year-old maiden auction race.
Cormac Farrell from Bunclody saddled Kings Jet who snatched a ‘neck’ victory under Clare rider Emily Costello in the Ladies Open Race. A tilt at the Cheltenham Foxhunters is the next target for Kings Jet.
Hearts And Spades from the Kildare stables of Ian McCarthy won the six-year-old plus maiden race under Galway rider Eoin Mahon who was returning from injury.
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