O’Connor reaches 1,000 landmark

Champion amateur Derek O’Connor recorded 1,000 wins in point-to-points when successful on Death Duty at Cragmore in County Limerick, yesterday.

O’Connor achieved the landmark with a 15-length victory in the Brightwells Bloodstock 4YO Geldings Maiden on the Gigginstown House Stud-owned Death Duty for one of his principal supporters, Pat Doyle.

The County Galway rider had taken his tally to 999 on Muirhead at Kirkistown on Saturday.