Kilquane Jack gets off mark in style

Pat Collins was the in-form rider at yesterday’s exceptionally well-attended Liscarroll point-to-point fixture, run under the auspices of the Duhallow Foxhounds, as he partnered a two-timer.

On an afternoon that witnessed 16-year-old Dara Healy singing the national anthem in the parade ring just before racing, Collins completed his brace aboard Terence O’Brien’s Kilquane Jack in the five-year-old geldings’ maiden.

Kilquane Jack (12/1), having pulled up on his only previous start at Killeagh a little over two months earlier, always took the eye in running as Avant La Lettre and Lion Of Lackabane shared pacesetting duties.