The Bishop Looney makes it day to savour for Emma Nagle

Whilst weather conditions were wet and windy at yesterday’s United Foxhounds point-to-point fixture at Ballindenisk, it’s a day that will live long in the memory of 18-year-old Emma Nagle from Kilavullen as she claimed her first winner aboard her father TJ Nagle Junior’s homebred The Bishop Looney in the novice riders open.

The Bishop Looney (4/1), a creditable third on his points debut at Dromahane earlier this month, always took the eye in running and was already gaining the upper hand when Drawn N Drank erred at the final fence.

It Came To Pass (3/1), a half-brother to former Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Lord Windermere, treated his rivals with sheer contempt in the five-year-old geldings’ maiden.