Blae best as promising newcomers battle it out

It may well happen that we will hearing a lot more about Boris De Blae and Rabunda, a pair of newcomers, that finished first and second in that order in the four-year-old maiden at yesterday’s Duhallow Foxhounds point-to-point.

Boris De Blae (4/1) and Rabunda moved past the favourite Minella Style on the run to three out. With Minella Style duly beaten in third when falling at the penultimate obstacle, Boris De Blae and Rabunda then quickened clear in scintillating fashion on the run to the final fence.

It was however Tom Keating’s Boris De Blae that was marginally on top inside the final 50 yards with Johnny Burke’s mount defeating Rabunda, trained by Vincent Halley, by a head with an 18-length break to the third-placed Knockyoursocksoff.