Double delight for O’Connor at Carrigtwohill point-to-point

My Best Valentine recorded her fifth points success by becoming the only winner on the card to make virtually all the running

Mags Nelson wins the five-year-old and upwards adjacent hunts maiden for novice riders in the hands of Michael Kenneally at Carrigtwohill point-to-point meeting. Picture: Dan Linehan

Mikey O’Connor was the only rider to partner two winners at Sunday’s well-attended Pigeon Hill and Carrigtwohill point-to-point meeting at Ballyvodock with the north Corkonian completing his brace aboard Ebenezer Scrooge in the six-year-old and upwards maiden, a race that came with a €1,500 bonus to the winning owner.

Valentia Island-based owner/trainer Joe Daly’s Ebenezer Scrooge (7-1) vindicated the promise of his fourth-placed points debut effort at Aghabullogue last month by leading after the last to dispose of Made U Look by five lengths. Daly, who was actually celebrating his very first success, indicated that ex-track performer Ebenezer Scrooge will now contest a winners race.