Facile success for Pocket Reader

The first point-to-point of the season in the Cork region took place on Saturday on the site of the Cork agricultural show at Curraheen.

Run under the auspices of the Muskerry Foxhounds, the meeting was plagued by extremely blustery weather conditions . That though will have mattered little to owner/rider Irene Walsh who steered the admirable Pocket Reader, trained by her brother-in-law Eugene O’Sullivan, to a facile success in the open lightweight.

In a race that saw just three runners, Pocket Reader (4/6) tracked the frontrunning Frontier Lady until joining issue with six fences remaining. The eventual winner, a fine third on his return to the fray at Loughrea almost three weeks earlier, led away from the fourth last and he duly defeated Sheila Ahern’s mount Frontier Lady by 15 lengths.