Following an enforced 20-day break due to the inclement weather conditions, point-to-point racing returned to the Cork and Waterford region on Saturday as the rescheduled Tallow meeting (run under the auspices of the West Waterford Foxhounds) took place at Shanakill Cross outside Conna.

Wexford was found to be raceable yesterday afternoon, but today’s meeting is subject to a further inspection at 8am this morning.

Off the track since finishing unplaced in the Munster National last October, Casey Top captured the featured McSweeney Arms Hotel Handicap Chase in Killarney yesterday.

The Harry Kelly-trained Carthalawn lit up yesterday’s well-attended Tallow point-to-point meeting, staged on Jimmy Mangan’s lands at Shanakill Cross, by winning a vintage renewal of the open lightweight.

NIGEL Twiston-Davies rounded off a wonderful day when Baby Run ran the opposition ragged to take the Christis's Foxhunter Chase.

PINT-SIZED Sesenta produced all the right qualities to take the Guillamene Maiden at Tramore yesterday, redeeming the promise of her recent second at Galway.