BARRY O’Neill and Jamie Codd are set to fight it out at Kinsale and Ballingarry this weekend in the race to be The Irish Field Champion Rider for the 2016-’17 season.

As the season enters its final days, O’Neill leads Codd by two winners. Codd is the reigning champion and was recently crowned champion amateur on the track for the first time. O’Neill has never won the overall point-to-point title. He was second to Codd last season, having placed third for the five previous years.

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The eventual winner will pick up the trophy and €1,500 next Saturday at The Irish Field Point-To-Point Awards in the Clayton Whites Hotel in Wexford.

Tickets are priced at only €65 and a limited number of rooms are also available from p2p.ie. For further details contact Kirsty (087 1611067) or Niall (086 7907676).