IN EI100 (Amateur) company, two riders struck twice between Hillcrest (1) on Sunday, May 14th and Kilguilkey House (2) on Sunday last, July 2nd, and one of the pair who managed that feat, Darren O’Connor, did so on those two dates with his Irish Sport Horse gelding Newmarket Apollo.

However, on 38 points from four counting runs in the league, O’Connor and his six-year-old Newmarket Venture bay are some way adrift of Co Kildare’s Rolline O’Callaghan and Splendid B who are on 52. The pair’s record for the season reads four wins and one second-place finish from five starts with two of those successes coming in two outings in the period under review.