McMahon snatches Blessington Premier prize

MONAGHAN'S Clem McMahon snatched Blessington's big Premier Series Grand Prix at Kill International in Co. Kildare today with a superb double clear on May Scott's 'Cobold'.

The G&K Building Company-sponsored Grand Prix, which carried a total prize purse of 15,000 euro, saw 12 combinations through to the jump-off from a field of 30 starters, but the 30 year-old Clones rider set the pace from early in the jump-off, and proved uncatchable on Tom Holden's course, even by the formidable Francis Connors and his Grand Prix specialist 'Merlin's Magic', who had to make do with runner-up spot at Kill today.