O’Connor beats own record by four

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.

O’Connor won last season’s riders championship with 59 winners, but yesterday’s brace meant that the Galwegian concluded the campaign with an astonishing 63 winners.

Liam Burke provided O’Connor with his initial winner - The Camerengo (5/2) - in the five and six-year-old geldings maiden. Sporting the silks of south Co Kilkenny owner Seamus Murphy, The Camerengo edged ahead after five out. Bealaha Bridge came with a renewed effort at the final fence, but The Camerengo still obliged by three lengths.