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Qualification for the AGA final has been the sole aim this year for Paul Tylor’s home-bred Miss Saffron, who has been brought back to pointing this season after a career under rules which yielded one Chase success and three over hurdles.

After Chandlers Cross had scored at Ystradowen last week, Jenny Price thought he might need a fortnight’s break. But the fact that he had been bucking and kicking when turned out in the field proved to her that he was raring to go again and he gained an emphatic victory at the AGA Ladies' Open Point-to-Point Championship qualifier at Ystradowen on April 13th.

At the AGA Ladies' Open Point-to-Point Championship qualifier at Hackwood Park in Hampshire on Saturday April 13th, Medic’s love affair with the course continued, this being his fifth success from seven visits to the track and probably his easiest.

Horsham Lad became the first horse this season to win three AGA races this season, revelling in both the extreme distance and the soft conditions at the AGA Ladies' Open Point-to-Point Championship qualifier at Heythrop in Mollington.

New pairing Chandlers Cross and teenager Jenny Price pull off a surprise win in the AGA Ladies' Open Point-to-Point Championship qualifier at Lydstep in Wales

The team at AGA get a lot of strange requests, but none quite as odd as the one that came from City of London police officer Pete Digby, who got in touch saying he wanted to run the London marathon pulling an AGA cooker.