IT was good to see Graham McKeever get off the mark for the season when saddling Townhill Penny to land the Strangford Arms Hotel mares’ maiden at Kirkistown last Saturday.

Ridden by Mikey Sweeney, as she was when third at Loughanmore and Tattersalls on her two previous starts this term, the five-year-old Kalanisi bay ran in the colours of Gerald Quinn at this North Down Hunt meeting but is being consigned to Goffs UK’s sale at Yorton Farm on Thursday by his cousin, Patrick McGuigan.