Home double for Hennessy

NOTHING quite beats winning at home and Richard Hennessy did precisely that when recording his initial career two-timer at yesterday’s Killeagh Harriers point-to-point meeting for the fixture was staged on his father Joe’s farm at Knockane outside Killeagh.

It was actually Joe Hennessy that supplied the 23-year-old with his second success of the afternoon courtesy of Annie Aces (10/1) in the five and six-year-old mares’ maiden. Annie Aces, a creditable fourth on her penultimate start behind Fromthecloudsabove at Milltown in November, arrived to challenge the frorntrunning Uimhir A Seacht at the final fence.

Whilst not overly fluent here, Annie Aces still led inside the final 100 yards to thwart the gallant Uimhir A Seacht by a length with a three-length break to the third-placed Carrig Rua Lady.