Anna and Oscar stretch O'Neill's lead at the top of the jockeys' table

County Wexford rider Barry O'Neill stretched his lead at the head of the jockeys' table with a double on Sunday at his local Monksgrange track, taking his total this season to 44.

The first of O'Neill's successes came on Cill Anna in the competitive IRE Wel Pallets four-year-old mares’ maiden as the Colin Bowe-trained daughter of Imperial Monarch battled gamely to beat Ellen Doyle's Who's The Boss.

Bowe bought the winner, who is named after a local town land in Irish, at the Land Rover sale last year for €38,000 and he said: “She is a smart filly. They went such a gallop that Barry said he never got a breather into her, the pace just never let up. She was very professional and she will head on to the sales now.”