O’Connor moves to within two of 1000 winner milestone

Equestrian: The annual Tallow point-to-point meeting, run under the auspices of the West Waterford Foxhounds, was shrouded in a dense fog yesterday severely restricting visibility.

There was though some extremely competitive fare on offer and Derek O’Connor moved ever closer to the magical 1000 winner mark in points by recording his 998 hunt racing success aboard Timmy Hyde’s newcomer Walking In The Air in the five-year-old geldings’ maiden.

A €44,000 graduate of the 2013 Derby sale, Walking In The Air (2/1) and Christmas Twenty dominated the race from the outset until the eventual winner asserted on the lengthy approach to the final of the 15 obstacles.