ON his first ride for Joseph O’Brien, Co Tyrone native Simon Torrens doubled his previous best seasonal score (12 in the 2019/20 campaign) when initiating a big handicap double at Leopardstown last Saturday on A Wave Of The Sea in the Grade B Matheson Handicap Chase.

The five-year-old Born To Sea gelding ran in the colours of J.P. McManus which Torrens also wore to victory just over an hour later in the Grade B Ladbrokes Handicap Hurdle on the Pat Fahy-trained Drop The Anchor, a seven-year-old Shantou gelding on whom the jockey had won at Listowel in September.