Cloneen Choice displays abundant stamina to record third win of season

There were eight races at yesterday’s well-attended Dawstown point-to-point fixture, run under the auspices of the Muskerry Foxhounds, at Birch Hill outside Grenagh and Cloneen Choice showed abundant reserves of stamina to record his third success of the season in the winners of two.

The seven-year-old Cloneen Choice (4/1) disputed the running until going on from half-way and he seemed a sitting target for the closing Carraig Thuathail and Barramundi on the run to the penultimate of the 13 obstacles.

Carraig Thuathail actually hit the front briefly after two out except that Cloneen Choice fought back determinedly for Ciaran Fennessy and the triumphant son of Milan was the faster in the air at the last.