By Dan Walsh
Tomorrow’s Killinick Harriers point-to-point races at Lingstown, Tomhaggard, has received a high entry of 129 and the forecast is for a dry day. The first race is off at 1pm and ‘divides’ are a possibility.
The card will feature a race ‘over the banks course’ which is usually a spectacle and qualifies horses for similar type races at Punchestown later in the Spring.
The track is in good order, and the going is officially ‘yielding to soft, yielding in places.’ The organisers are hoping for a good crowd as the races will up the appetite for next week’s Cheltenham Festival.
Today (Saturday’s) point-to-point took place at Tyrella, Co. Down and Wexford raiders were in winning form.
The maiden race for four-year-olds was won by Newgrove in the colours of Denis Murphy, Ballyboy Stables, The Ballagh, by 13 lengths ridden by Shane Cotter. Newgrove goes to the sales now.
James Kenny, Craanford, son of Liam Kenny, saddled his first winner when The Orphan Girl, owned by the four member Orphan Girl Syndicate from Ballymoney, Gorey, scored by two lengths in the five and six-year-old mares’ maiden race providing Timahoe, Co. Laois rider Graham Devitt with his first winner.
Bunclody native Cormac Farrell, who now trains at Kildangan, Co. Kildare, won the maiden race for novice riders when Sledgehammer got up by ‘a neck’ to take victory under Ballindaggin rider Cormac Byrne.
And Barry O’Neill rode his 24th winner of the season on West of Idaho for David Christie in the Winner of One race.
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