Most notably in Saturday’s $33,500 McDaniel & Associates 1m55, where he claimed a win with Alpha VDL, by the incredibly tight margin of six thousandths of a second.

The Offaly native was one of seven to make the jump-off and he was the first rider to post a second clear with Eva Castegren’s nine-year-old gelding Alpha VDL, who is by Corland out of an Emilion dam.