History-maker Codd chasing jockeys’ title

JAMIE CODD enjoyed the celebrations that followed his history-making point-to-point achievement of going through the card at Tinahely on Sunday, but it’s back to business now as he pursues a coveted jockeys’ title.

While three other amateur pilots had ridden six winners at a point-to-point meeting – Adrian Maguire and Mark O’Hare managed the feat on occasions when there were more than six races on the programme – John Berry at Caim in 1988 was the only one to go through the card until Codd finally did it on Sunday.

The experience of failing in the final race at Loughbrickland last year and Lingstown a few years ago, certainly stood to the 29-year-old.