Amateur rider Jennifer Pugh, joint Leading Point to Point rider last season, recorded her first racecourse winner, in the concluding Waterford & Tramore Directors Ladies Bumper at Tramore today, winning on 14/1 chance Carrig Castle.
Pugh, a doctor by profession, produced the daughter of Presenting with a well timed challenge to move her mount to the front over a furlong out for a three and a half lengths win over Whats On The Menu
Afterwards winning trainer Michael Fitzgerald reported “Carrig Cottage had been running consistently well in bumpers and may go hurdling now.”
