IT was another late finish at Bartlemy with 90 runners on the nine-race card, and Derek O’Connor moved a step closer to registering a record-extending 12th The Irish Field point-to-point riders’ championship success with a double moving him six clear of Barry O’Neill in the title race – 42 to 36.

O’Connor, donning his handler’s hat, was successful with his wife Carol’s newcomer Jasper Crystal (4/1) in the second division of the four-year-old geldings’ maiden under jockey Evan Nugent, a key member of staff at O’Connor’s Fiddaun academy.