Mossey Joe warms up for possible Aintree tilt with easy open lightweight win

There was a definite class act in action at yesterday’s Kanturk-Duhallow point-to-point meeting at Dromahane for last season’s champion pointer/hunter chaser Mossey Joe lit-up the afternoon by destroying the opposition on his first start for handler Enda Bolger in the open lightweight.

With the vast majority of the 17 bookmakers reluctant to price up Mossey Joe, who was eventually sent off a 1/5 shot, the winning 11-year-old was bounced out in front by regular partner Damien Skehan and that was the last that his five opponents saw of him.

Mossey Joe made his only semblance of a mistake at the sixth of the 13 fences and he duly sauntered home by 10 lengths from King Troy in the familiar colours of Barry Connell, who bought the chesnut for £160,000 stg through bloodstock agent Gerry Hogan at Brightwells Cheltenham sale in January.