Mountain Lough gives fine front-running display in Ladies Open

There was some cracking fare on offer at yesterday’s second stage of the Kinsale two-day point-to-point fixture, run under the auspices of the South Union Foxhounds at Farrangalway, and the Louis Archdeacon-trained Mountain Lough lit up the afternoon for many by making virtually all the running with first-time partner Maxine O’Sullivan in the Ladies Open.

The 12-year-old Mountain Lough (5/4) had Forjoetheplumber for company throughout and the race concerned the duo from four out as the other two runners Prince Of Milan and Pocket Reader couldn’t go with the front pair.

Mountain Lough still held a two-length advantage over Forjoetheplumber when the recent Tralee runner-up sustained a crashing second-last fence fall with rider Sheila Ahern being later removed to hospital with a suspected fractured collar-bone.