SAMMY Weston is best known as a show jumper and producer of sport horses but, in today’s edition of The Irish Field, she is listed as the breeder of a winning point-to-pointer, Garcon Dargent.

Trained in Co Wexford by Denis Murphy, the Doyen bay landed the five and six-year-old geldings’ maiden at Tinahely on Sunday in the hands of Jack Hendrick, seeing off the Gordon Elliott-trained favourite Ringcraft, a newcomer by Milan, by 10 lengths.

This was a fifth outing for Garcon Dargent who started his career with a second-place finish at Dromahane in early May last year. He was bred by Sammy out of the unraced home-bred Silver Needle.

That Snurge mare is a half-sister to the Grade 3-placed, four-time winner Hansupfordetroit out of a half-sister to the Grade 1 chase winner, Accordion Etoile.

“Garcon Dargent was the mare’s first foal,” related Sammy who, with fiancé James Hammond, huntsman of the Newrys, and their pony-mad children Lucy (five) and James (three), lives in Loughbrickland while Silver Needle and another thoroughbred broodmare are kept with her parents, Stephen and Hilary, at their Ballystockart Stud near Comber.

“She has a four-year-old full-brother to him called In Limbo, who was third on his only start at Tatts for Rob James, and a yearling half-sister by Sea Moon who she is in foal to again.

“I was jumping my two mares Daphne (an eight-year-old skewbald by Indian Red) and Lynara Rioja (a five-year-old bay by Cobra 18) at Cavan the weekend before last but they are now on a bit of a holiday so we can concentrate on breakers and schooling some of the young horses.

“We quite often get in a thoroughbred to start off jumping and I like doing that as well.”

Sammy didn’t have any show jumpers at the Dublin Horse Show in August but did compete in the older performance Irish Draught class on Charlotte and Nigel Moore’s home-bred Tullys Cherry, the 2016 Skip And Sea mare with whom she won the ID performance championship at Balmoral last year.