CONGRATULATIONS to Noel McParlan on winning his third northern region point-to-point riders’ title. The Cabra amateur partnered 26 winners, a figure which matches that of Mark O’Hare last season and is four more than when Noel won in 2014/2015 and eight more than when he was first successful at the end of the 2012/13 campaign.

Eleven of Noel’s wins came on horses trained by his father Sean while the final one was recorded on Saturday at Necarne Castle where he won the LE Graphics adjacent hunts’ race on Keephimbachwilliam, a seven-year-old Bach gelding owned and trained by Lady Janey Alexander.