THERE were two contrasting winners for northern trainers at Dundalk on Tuesday evening.

First up, Clare Cannon saddled her father Geoff’s Coreczka to land division one of the seven-furlong handicap at odds of 5/1. This was a sixth course success for the six-year-old Intense Focus mare and her third at the Co Louth track under Oisin Orr who was also on board the bay when she won at Laytown early last month.

In contrast, Andy Oliver’s winner on the night was the newcomer Panther Soul who, in the hands of Conor Hoban, got up close home in the 12-furlong three-year-old maiden to score by a length and a half from the 6/4 favourite, World Stage, who was having his fifth start.

A length and a quarter back in third was the winner’s stable-companion Financial Conduct who, too, was making his debut. That Shane Foley-partnered Harbour Watch gelding was the more fancied of the pair, going off at 25/1 while Panther Soul, a son of Famous Name, was returned at twice those odds.

Both horses, who were purchased as yearlings by Oliver, ran in the colours of J.P. Ledwidge whose Go Guarantor (by Medicean) finished fourth in a division of the 12-furlong handicap on Tuesday.

Northern-bred winners in the period under review include the Berry Farms-bred pair of Miss Eyecatcher (two and a half-mile novice chase at Tipperary on Tuesday) and Treackle Tart (novices’ hurdle over the same trip at Worcester last Friday).

Turning to Northern-born jockeys, Sammy Jo Bell recorded one of her biggest successes since returning from injury when she landed the five-furlong handicap at Haydock on Saturday with Boundsy.

That three-year-old Dandy Man gelding is trained by Sammy Jo’s boss Richard Fahey who also suppled her with a winner at Ayr on Tuesday when the four-year-old Monsieur Bond filly Rubis justified favouritism in the nine-furlong handicap.

Unfortunately for this writer (who had invested all of €2 each way) Barry McHugh, who is also based at Fahey’s Musley Bank yard, was beaten into second in the Cambridgeshire at Newmarket on the James Given-trained Sands Chorus, a 100/1 shot.