AN afternoon with a difference. That summed up Sunday’s Tallow meeting, run by the West Waterford Foxhounds, as a thick fog descended on the Conna course for the majority of the afternoon severely restricting visibility for five out of the six races.

Derek O’Connor certainly wasn’t inconvenienced by such conditions and he moved a step closer to the magical 1,000 winner mark in points by bringing his tally to 998 aboard Timmy Hyde’s newcomer Walking In The Air in the Doncaster Bloodstock Sales five-year-old geldings’ maiden.