THE 23-year-old Knocklong, Co Limerick rider Patrick Gleeson enjoyed an afternoon to savour at last Sunday’s well-attended Limerick Foxhounds meeting at Rathcannon as he registered his first career victory aboard Brian Mortell’s Daicheadacuig (10/1 - 12/1) in the open lightweight.

Content to look on as short-priced favourite Some Are Lucky and Solomn Grundy vied for supremacy up-front, Gleeson, a final year University Of Limerick student, gave his mount the office on the approach to the second from home and thereafter the successful duo valiantly held the late rally of Some Are Lucky by three lengths.