SIXTEEN-year-old Alex Power had big shoes to fill when taking over the ride on the family’s TLB Interactive this season but the partnership has begun to really gel over the past few weeks and won the CNCJ* at Tyrella last Saturday on their fourth start.

Alex, who is in transition year at Newbridge College, is riding show jumpers for outside owners and, as part of the transition year programme, has been working at the O’Callaghan family’s Yeomanstown Stud near Naas. There, he spent the autumn prepping yearlings for the sales and the spring riding two-year-olds in advance of the breeze-up sales.