FRAN BERRY moved to within one of pace-setting 13 times champion Michael Kinane in the Jockeys Championship table when sharing the riding honours with Niall McCullagh ay Navan yesterday, each rider completing a double.

DERMOT WELD’S Mermaid Island, a costly failure on bad ground at Listowel, made no mistake in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Median Auction Maiden at a sparsely attended Thurles yesterday.

JAMIE SPENCER took his total for the season to 78 with a 41-1 double on Senor Benny and Pantarez at Listowel yesterday.

THE husband and wife team of Pat Smullen and Frances Crowley combined to take the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Race with Kay Two at a soaking wet Tipperary last night.

MOST impressive performance at Killarney last night came when Sandy Owen and Jamie Spencer toyed with The Last Hurrah and Michael Kinane in the River Rock Race.