AS the success of point-to-point graduates on the track continues to soar, producing no fewer than 175 winners under rules last month and making it the third most successful individual month since records began, it is the performance of point-to-point mares that continue to impress.

Last Friday week, Alsa Mix got the better of the geldings’ to claim the Grade 2 Ballymore Winter Novices’ Hurdle at Sandown.