LAST season’s champion point-to-pointer Winged Leader (7/4 - 11/8 favourite) was the star of the show in Farmacaffley, where he claimed his 29th career success between the flags by winning the open lightweight on the card for the third consecutive year.

Although running only a week after his narrow defeat at the hands of Early Doors in Oldtown, the John Hegarty and Jennifer O’Kane-owned 11-year-old showed his usual grit and determination, as he took up the running with a circuit to go.