RUBY WALSH’S decision to go to Limerick last night for just one ride paid dividends when he guided Imperial Rose to victory in the Holmes O’Malley Sexton Hurdle.

TRAINER Adrian Maguire ran three horses at yesterday’s Bandon point-to-point at Kilpatrick and remarkably the former Gold Cup winning jockey went away with three winners.

DEREK O’CONNOR created his own piece of history by partnering a double at the second day of the South Union Hunt point-to-point festival at Fort Arthur outside Kinsale yesterday.