All's well that ends well for potent jumping partnership.
The jumping fortunes of trainer Raymond Connors and jockey Isaac Lupton turned around in dramatic fashion yesterday after a dismal start to proceedings at Ellerslie.
Our Jackson finished a distant fifth for them in the Barfoot & Thompson Steeplechase before Max tired badly in the Schweppes Great Northern Hurdles and was pulled up.
However, everything went to plan in the Irvines Great Northern Steeplechase and the pair celebrated their fourth win together in the feature, which they won three times with Hypnotize in 2007, 2008 and 2010.
Wise Men Say had claimed the McGregor Grant Steeplechase in June and subsequent placings in the Manawatu and Wellington Steeplechases and in the Pakuranga Hunt Cup made him favourite for the Northern.