Milestone for Eoin OBrien

Eoin O’Brien reached a milestone in his career when registering his 100th point-to-point winner between the flags aboard the Olivia Hegarty trained Hipop at Ballyknock.

O’Brien had an agonizing wait in the final race of the day before the judge awarded a dead heat between himself and the Colin Motherway trained Big Gangsta. The pair drew eight lengths clear of the third placed Breeze Of Wind.

The County Cork rider has nine winners on the board this season, he has had two doubles, the first at his local track Kildorrery and then another at Moig South which included a win aboard Gaillimh A Stor who was subsequently sold for £50,000 at the Tattersalls Cheltenham December Sale.

O’Brien has been riding in point-to-points since 2006 and registered his first winner aboard Flash Bandito at Carrigtwohill in February 2007.

The Mitchelstown native has finished within the top-10 riders in three seasons, he is particularly dominant in the southern region.  80 of his winners have been recorded in this region

His most successful tracks are Dromahane (11 winners), Kildorrery (8 winners) and Ballindenisk (8 winners).

His main supporters include; Jimmy Mangan (12), Daniel G Murphy (11), Marie Harding (9),

O’Brien has also had great success under rules which includes a Listed win aboard Crackerdancer at Navan in 2017.