19 March 2008 Tivyside - Cilwendeg
Miss Sallyfield: Ladies' Open victor under 16-year-old Ceri Evans
Rhys Hughes, 26, celebrated the birth of his daughter Anaira last Tuesday by riding his first ever hat-trick at the rain-soaked Tivyside Point-to-Point with Hume Theatre (Members), Little Ed (Confined) and Bob Bites Back (Maiden division three).
Rhys, who is married to former stable lass Natalie Band and has two other children Kristian, aged 8, and Oliver, 18 months, said, "When I entered the winners' enclosure, after winning on Bob Bites Back, the owner, Mrs Edna Hussey, was so delighted she nearly pulled me off the horse to give me a big kiss."
However, Rhys's wife Natalie has no need to worry as the remarkable - she's nearer 90 than 80 - Mrs Hussey's great love is Bob Bites Back who won easily from the favourite Monsieur Delage.
Little Ed, tried in blinkers for the first time, was completing a four-timer, and Hume Theatre, a winner of his only two starts last season, comfortably accounted for Paktol de Brosses. All three of Rhys's winners are trained by Robert Scrine of Pyle.
Minsgill Mans gave James Tudor his 16th winner of the season when winning the Men's Open and Ceri Evans, 16, took the ladies' equivalent on Miss Sallyfield, trained by her mother Gina.
Dillwyn Thomas's homebred Daisy's Rainbow won the Restricted under Luke Price, and Balloughton, who had finished fifth in a Leicester Hunter Chase recently, was a winner for Jodie Hughes in the Intermediate.
Isabel Tompsett took the first division of the Maiden on Find It Out, whose only claim to fame was in finishing third in a selling hurdle a couple of seasons ago, and Sams Lad, ridden by Deano Coleman and owned by Cardiff bookmaker John Lovell, won the second division.
