Codd bags five-timer at Punchestown marathon

THERE were no less than 12 races and 168 runners at Saturday’s rescheduled Kildare Hunt point-to-point meeting at Punchestown racecourse and Jamie Codd had an afternoon to savour with a whopping five winners.

Codd got off the mark aboard Trevor Horgan’s newcomer Up Ou That (7/2) in a competitive first division of the two and a half mile four-year-old maiden. The pacesetting Perfect Smile, trained by John Halley, still held the call when exiting two out and Paul (PP) Moloney’s filly Kempinski was then left in front.

The eventual winner however made his way to the front on the approach to the last and he held a half-length advantage over Promising Anshan when Sean Doyle’s charge fell here.