THERE was some ultra-competitive fare at Sunday’s United Hunt fixture at Ballindenisk and Barry O’Neill, already assured of another overall championship, joined Jamie Scallan at the head of the southern riders’ title race on 14 winners by partnering a sparkling three-timer.

O’Neill, who won the Dan Kissane Memorial Cup as the meeting’s leading rider, got off to a perfect start aboard the Jonathan Fogarty-trained Time To Give (3/1 - 4/1) in the four-year-old mares’ maiden.