Classy Battlefront charges to eighth consecutive victory

The Ted Walsh-trained Battlefront cemented his position as this season’s champion point-to-pointer by destroying the opposition in the ladies open at the first session of the Ormond Foxhounds meeting at Ballingarry, Co Tipperary yesterday.

Battlefront (1/5) barely had little more than an exercise stroll with his handler’s daughter Katie as he led from the sixth of the 15 obstacles to beat the Jane Foley-ridden Risk It Paddy by a distance. Battlefront, unbeaten this season, was chalking up his eighth consecutive success of the campaign and he’s surely one of the best pointers we’ve seen over the past decade.

Jamie Codd, who partnered four winners at Kinsale on Saturday evening, kept his legion of supporters happy by teaming up with Gerard Corrigan to collect the first division of the six-year-old geldings’ maiden with Ravens Brook (2/1). Placed on his two previous starts, Ravens Brook led from after the second last to dismiss favourite Ibetellingyoualie by a comprehensive six lengths.