Three-in-a-Row for Hutchinson

Her last runner, Miley Byrne was a winner at Roscommon on Tuesday night and Caroline Hutchinson sent out another two winners (a 55/1 brace) within ten minutes of each other, Hu Ha Jo (12s in the morning and 9s into 7s on track) scoring at Wexford in easy fashion under Conor Maxwell whilst it was altogether a tighter affair but Blue Express got the verdict at Cork in the hands of Alain Cawley.

Bred locally in Barntown by the O'Connor family, Hu Ha Jo was a first winner under Rules for the stallion Gulland, who had his initial point-to-point victory earlier in the year. Meanwhile Joe Hutchinson based in Mullinavat, Co. Kilkenny, a cousin of the trainer, owns the Cork winner, Blue Express. He is the publican at Jim Ja's Bar in that village near Waterford city and he was seeing his charge win for the third time in a row. The modest trainer quipped, "I'll start thinking that I can train after all this." (EM)