THE 11-time champion-rider Derek O’Connor dominated last Sunday’s Limerick Harriers-sanctioned fixture held at Ballycahane, when partnering a hat-trick of winners with the Tubber-native combining with handler Sam Curling for a pair of victories.

The O’Connor-handled and ridden newcomer Hardly Surprising (5/2 - 7/2) looked a horse of some potential for inside the rails, when running out a narrow winner of the four-year-old geldings’ maiden.