Double wraps up trainers’ title for Tyner

Robert Tyner left yesterday’s second-stage of the two-day South Union Foxhounds point-to-point festival at Farrangalway outside Kinsale virtually assured of victory in the trainers’ championship after saddling two winners on the six-race card.

He now leads Colin Bowe by five (29 – 24) with just two days racing at Ballingarry, Co. Tipperary, left in the current season.

Tyner will have attained immense satisfaction from the success of Presenting Rebel (4/5) in the winners of two contest for the race was staged in memory of his son Jack who died as a result of injuries sustained in a raceriding fall last year.