AS the month of May draws to a close, graduates of Irish point-to-point racing look set to record their most successful year on the track to date, with 1,098 races up to last weekend in Britain and Ireland having been won by horses with Irish point-to-point form to their name.

This is the 12th consecutive season that the number of track winners for point-to-point graduates has been recorded, and with the exception of the 2006/2007 campaign where the number of winners fell by just 10 on the previous year, the number of track winners has continued to climb each year to what is expected to be the current previously unreached position.