A double for Barry O’Neill at Bray Harriers point-to-point held in pleasant conditions at Fairwood, Tinahely, this afternoon, brought the champion’s total to 33 for the season and half dozen for the weekend, while a double for Jamie Codd saw the Mayglass rider win his 75^th race at Fairwood Park and record his 950^th point-to-point career winner.

Jamie Codd got his milestone winner in the maiden race for four-year olds when Bring The Action won well by two lengths for Denis Murphy’s Ballyboy Stables. This was the third winner in two weekends for the sire Jet Away standing at Eoin Banville’s Arctic Tack Stud at Newbawn, Foulksmills. Handler Murphy thinks a lot of Bring The Action whom he described as “a big horse with lots better to come” and he is now sales bound.

Half an hour later and Codd had moved on to 951 – this time it was Tucson Train by one and a half lengths in the maiden race for five year old geldings and a well-deserved and impressive training double for Denis Murphy, saddling his 15^th winner of the season and bringing a career total to 214.

Barry O’Neill hit winning form on Ballymorris Rose by three and a half lengths in the Winners of Two for handler Colin Bowe and owners/breeders John and Anna Asple from Bree. The six-year-old bay mare is the daughter of Askanna, who won two point-to-points and seven races on the track for the Asples, and Ballymorris Rose will now be aimed at a summer campaign on the track and looks an exciting prospect.

O’Neill rounded off a brilliant weekend – six winners- in the maiden race for six-year-old plus geldings with a one and a half lengths success on Locallink, trained by Shay Slevin at Kiltra, Enniscorthy, and running in the colours of his wife, Elizabeth. Afterwards Shay Slevin said Locallink, who is a bay gelding bred by Paul Rothwell, Lacken House, Ferns, will “either be sold or run in a winners’’.

The maiden race for five year olds and upwards mares produced a local success for handler Philip Rothwell, who trains over the next ditch from the track at Tinahely, when Lawlor’s Choice coped excellently with the soft conditions to take the verdict by half a length and gave 19 years old Dan Nevin from Gowran his first success. Lawlor’s Choice is owned by Rothwell’s farrier, Tom Power from Kilrush, Bunclody, and Annette Lawlor, and the connections were thrilled at having a victory on their local patch.

The other race on the card was the Open Lightweight Race with novice riders up and Eddies Miracle, a hot favourite to win his 11^th point-to-point for owner Ray Nicholas and Fermanagh handler David Christie, obliged by four lengths for Ben Harvey, (19) from The Naul, Co. Dublin.