WE could start off writing about other jockeys and end up scribbling a par about him but once again we have to acknowledge the skills of Dylan Browne McMonagle who visited the winner’s enclosure six times from last Thursday week to Sunday inclusive on Joseph O’Brien-trained runners.

His streak began with a treble at Leopardstown after which he partnered one winner at Down Royal on Friday. On Saturday, following the withdrawal of his intended mount Thundering On from the Juddmonte Irish Oaks (Group 1) he switched to Johanna Walsh and won the mile-and-a-half fillies’ classic by four lengths.

On Sunday, the reigning champion jockey was back at Headquarters where he won the one-mile-and-one-furlong Cavalor Equine Nutrition Irish EBF Fillies Maiden for three-year-olds on the Sea The Stars bay Star Performer.

Also on flat, but across the water, Darragh Keenan partnered a winner at Wolverhampton on Friday and Kyle McHugh did so at Nottingham on Saturday.

Over jumps over there on the same day, Brian Hughes recorded a double at Cartmel where Sam Ewing and Danny McMenamin rode a winner apiece.

ANDY Oliver did his bit for local trainers at Down Royal last Friday evening when sending out Francis Campbell’s Youcansaythatagain to win the Ampion Electrical Testing And Solar Experts Maiden on his second start.

The three-year-old Ghaiyyath colt, a 32,000gns purchase by his Caledon handler at the 2024 October Yearling Sale at Tattersalls Newmarket, justified 5/4 favouritism by three-parts of a length in the hands of Billy Lee who sent him to the front inside the final 110 yards.

The father and son team of Sean and Noel McParlan brought two horses over to Cartmel on Monday and struck in division one of the two-mile, six-furlong handicap hurdle with the seven-year-old gelding Drumlee Myth (Watar – Kentford Myth, by Midnight Legend).

LAST month, I enjoyed watching Oli Bell’s interview with Kate Shields after she and her father Kieran, selling through Sammy Murphy’s Stone Lodge Stud, had received €120,000 from Colin Bowe’s Milestone Bloodstock for a three-year-old Jukebox Jury gelding who they had purchased privately in Co Tipperary.

This week, I got to speak to Kate who not only helps her father with his pinhooking business but works full time in administration and compliance with the mainly cattle-orientated Mossvet in Portadown and also has time to produce two event horses.

Last Saturday, she won the EI100 class at Tullymurry on her seven-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding DS Bouncer 007 and also placed third in the Treo Eile-sponsored EI100 class for thoroughbreds on Golden Tara (Kayf Tara – Golden Gael, by Generous).

Also seven, that unraced British-bred gelding show jumped clear unlike his five rivals but picked up 5.2 time penalties across the country for a total of 35.5. I previously wrote about the winner, the Jennifer Gilchrist-partnered Millstream Mahler (32.8) and the second-placed Woodbury Tampa (34.8) who was ridden by Anna Sloan.

There is no event in the Northern Region this weekend so Kate is bringing her two horses down to the Tattersalls Ireland July Show where they will compete in the working hunter section. There is one dedicated thoroughbred class while Treo Eile are running two thoroughbred performance classes, one over a 90cms track and the other over a 1m course.

THERE was another connection between racing and the Eventing Ireland Northern Region one-day event at Tullymurry last Saturday.

Two days earlier, the two-mile, seven-furlong handicap chase at Worcester was won by Henry Box Brown (Getaway – Lough Coyne, by Bob Back), a nine-year-old chesnut gelding whose breeder, Hammie Hamilton, made the draw for the volunteer prizes at the event.

At Market Rasen on Saturday there was a win for the Berry Farms Bloodstock-bred five-year-old gelding Master Haku (Masked Marvel – La Sentosa, by Poliglote).

On the flat, there was a win at Redcar on Saturday for the McCracken Farms-bred three-year-old gelding Indefensible (Inns Of Court – Vexatious, by Shamardal) and one at Salisbury on Tuesday for the Pat Turley-bred nine-year-old gelding Amathus (Anjaal – Effige, by Oratorio).