AT this stage of the Stepping Stones to Success league at Wexford Equestrian, if there was straight betting on the result of the Nupafeed Supplements thoroughbred class, the odds on Destination Street winning would be prohibitively short. If there was a market without the favourite, then the same would be said about KMS Timeless.

At Wednesday’s fourth leg of the league, the pair finished first and second for the third week in a row. Rider and joint-owner Cathal Daniels didn’t bring the unraced KMS Timeless to the first qualifier back in late March when Destination Street, owned by Wexford rider Patrick Byrne and his brother Thomas, brought up the first leg of his four-timer.

There is little new to write about the six-year-old Thewayyouare gelding Destination Street whose full-brother, That Man Of Mine, won twice on the flat while his half-brother, Knight Destroyer (by Dark Angel) has won on the flat and over hurdles.

While Wednesday’s winner showed little enthusiasm for racing, pulling up in his two runs in point-to-points, Byrne, the rider, has high hopes for him as an eventer and has a lofty target of being selected with the chesnut for Le Lion d’Angers at the end of the season. Daniels, and joint-owner Kylemore Stud, have very different plans for their bay stallion KMS Timeless who will compete at next Wednesday’s final before heading west to the stud for five to six weeks when semen will be collected before he returns to work.

The five-year-old was bred at Kylemore by Olive Broderick and is by the stud’s Dutch thoroughbred stallion Watermill Swatch out of the Zaffaran mare Oh Jackie. That dual point-to-point winner had her biggest payday roughly 11 years ago when landing the La Touche cross-country race at the 2008 Punchestown Festival.