WORKING with her brother Robert, whose many roles these days include being a member of the bloodstock team at the sales company, Co Meath event rider Elizabeth Power signed for five foals over three years (2021 to 2023) at the November National Hunt Sale at Tattersalls Ireland.

The pair purchased two lots in 2021, which were then sold as three-year-olds, and one of these, a brown Maxios filly named Next Gen, won a four, five and six-year-old point-to-point maiden at Wadebridge in north Cornwall last Sunday on her second start in Britain.

Next Gen ran twice here last spring for Co Wexford trainer Harley Dunne, falling at the last when in with every chance in a four-year-old mares’ maiden at Castlelands in early March. She then finished a disappointing seventh in a similar race at Tullaherin the following month. She was sold cheaply in a private transaction at the Goffs UK point-to-point sale at Doncaster in May.

Next Gen is now trained by Will Biddick, the recently-retired multiple champion male point-to-point rider in Britain, who is married to international show jumper Harriet Biddick. Will rode Next Gen when she finished third on her British debut at Dunsmore last November, while Freddie Philipson-Stow was in the saddle on Sunday.

On the point-to-point scene at home, there was a first success as a handler/trainer for Garristown’s Jamie Dwyer, who saddled his own Tumuch to land the ‘winners of one’ race at Tinahely on Sunday under Joey Dunne.

Jamie featured in these pages earlier this month in Noel Mullins’s report on the Robinstown meet of the Goldburn Beagles. The French-bred Tumuch, a seven-year-old gelding by Buck’s Boum, was previously owned by Eamon Waters whose photograph appeared in last Saturday’s edition out hunting with the Ward Union.