REGISTERING your first winner under rules is special in any circumstances, but especially so when family is at the heart of the success.

That is exactly what materialised for Co Waterford-based trainer Richie O’Hara when making only his fourth runner under rules count at Wexford last month. Kilbuny Supersonic’s facile, 18-length victory in a mares’ maiden hurdle came in the colours of the Denton Syndicate, an ownership group involving Richie and his father Richard.