Percy destroys opposition in open lightweight

There was some competitive fare on offer at yesterday’s Westmeath Foxhounds point-to-point fixture at Castletown-Geoghegan and in-form handler David Christie’s Slippers Percy indicated that he could well by challenging for top honours this season by destroying the opposition in the open lightweight.

A former track winner, Slippers Percy (7/2 – 3/1) took up the running for Barry O’Neill at the sixth of the 15 obstacles and the combination made the rest of the running. Whilst none too clever four out, Slippers Percy was clearly containing market-leader Backstage from the penultimate obstacle with eight lengths duly separating the pair. Fairwood Bob returned a further 12 lengths adrift in third spot.

“We will run him in a few more points and then go for some of the bigger hunter chasers. If things keep going according to plan, he could hopefully be a Cheltenham Foxhunter horse”, said Christie of Slippers Percy, owned by Ray Nicholas from Belfast in partnership with Enniskillen hotelier Rodney Watson.