THE new point-to-point season started positively for the Loughanmore owner/trainer combination of Wilson Dennison and Colin McKeever as they landed the opening four-year-old maiden at Toomebridge last Saturday with Prairienative.

Ridden by Derek O’Connor, the Robin Des Champs gelding won by two lengths from the once previously-raced September Storm bay Storm In December, who was bred in Ardglass by Benedict Milligan out of the unraced Denel mare Betsy Grey.