SUNDAY’S Dungarvan Farmers meeting can be described as one of firsts all-round and 19-year-old Jerome Power recorded an initial career victory aboard his father Edmund Power’s newcomer Bushypark (100/30) in the six-year-old and upwards geldings’ maiden. For good measure, that son of Le Fou was also providing three-horse handler Shane O’Brien from Kereen with a very first winner.

Bushypark took up the running at the fourth of the 14 obstacles and he was closely pressed by favourite One More Life on the run to two-out. The market-leader blundered here and soon came under pressure in second. The eventual winner possessed all the aces in front when erring at the final fence. Although momentarily giving his supporters cause for concern, he stayed on stoutly to win by two-and-a-half lengths. The 26-year-old O’Brien, who acquired the horse as a three-year-old, said: “He’s a horse that handles deep ground and, if not sold, he will go for a winners’ race.”