FAMILY, friends and supporters of Sammy Jo Bell will have been delighted to see her record her first success since her return from injury at Musselburgh last Saturday.

The Templepatrick-born jockey was on board the 16/1 shot Cullingworth, who is trained by her boss Richard Fahey, when the Kodiac gelding landed the mile handicap for three-year-olds by a head. Bell was having her seventh ride of the season.

Accompanying a video of the closing stages of the race, Bell commented on her Facebook page on Sunday: “So delighted to be back in the winner’s enclosure yesterday! Big thanks to the boss for putting me up! Definitely a special day.”

Brian Hughes’s strike-rate has slowed down recently but he too was on the mark on Saturday when landing the mares’ bumper at Carlisle on The Vocalist who is trained by Stuart Crawford for his mother Edith.

The five-year-old Recharge bay was also ridden by the south Armagh-born jockey when second on her only other start at Kelso in November.

On Wednesday, Hughes won the two and a half-mile National Hunt novices’ hurdle at Sedgefield on the six-year-old Stowaway gelding Soupy Soups who was continuing the excellent season for his Co Antrim-born trainer Neil Mulholland.

Among the Northern-bred winners of interest recently was Rocknrollrambo who brought up a hat trick of hurdle race victories at Chepstow on Easter Monday. The 10-year-old Winged Love gelding was bred by Gordon McCully out of the Zaffaran mare Lady Padivor.

There were two winners for the Doran family this week. Out of the Anshan mare Running Wild, Patricia bred the seven-year-old Indian River gelding Remember Forever who won the near two and a half-mile handicap chase at Plumpton on Sunday. At Fairyhouse the following afternoon, Jane was responsible for breeding Showem Silver who won the two and three-quarter mile handicap hurdle. The six-year-old Winged Love gelding is out of the Lord Americo mare Swap Shop.

The venerable Maeve Chadwick, who was seen heading down to the sea during the one-day event at Tyrella on Saturday, bred Master Workman, winner of the hunters’ chase at Fakenham on Monday. The 11-year-old Posidonas gelding is out of the Buckskin mare Bobbie Magee.

Owner David Keys had mixed luck at Fairyhouse this week, Thebarrowman sadly finishing lame on Monday before the Winged Love seven-year-old Drumconnor Lad, who was bred by Martin Abernethy out of a Shahrastani mare, won the two and a half-mile maiden hurdle on Tuesday.