Derg Princess posts fifth success of season between the flags

Gordon Elliot is well on his way to winning the point-to-point handlers’ championship and the Co Meath-based operator sent out two winners at the rescheduled Brosna Foxhounds meeting outside Tullamore on Saturday afternoon.

Elliot signed off with Derg Princess in the mares’ open and the seven-year-old incidentally was posting her fifth success of the campaign and she’s now the season’s joint-leading horse with stable-companion Nedzer’s Return.

Derg Princess (1/3) always travelled with purpose and she eased past the frontrunning Mandy Carroll, a former hunters chase winner, on the approach to the 15th and final fence to oblige by five lengths. By doing so, Derg Princess was providing rider Barry O’Neill with a winner on his very first ride for Elliot.