MARTIN Harley hit the 50-win mark for the season in Britain on Wednesday evening when the William Haggas-trained Barton Mills justified 8/11 favouritism in division two of the seven-furlong two-year-old race at Kempton.

Earlier in the day, Brian Hughes proved the jockey to follow at Perth where three of his six mounts came home in front. Two of the trio were trained by Malcolm Jefferson for whom the Armagh-born jockey partnered four graded winners last season.

Sammy Jo Bell’s link-up with owner/trainer Wilf Storey continued to prove successful on Saturday at Catterick where they landed the featured La Fille Rouge Handicap (the final race in the Catterick Twelve Furlong Series) with the 16/1 shot Mr Sundowner.

The five-year-old gelding by Scat Daddy, who got up close home to beat the 11/8 favourite Je Suis Charlie by half a length, was winning for the third time in six outings under Templepatrick-born Bell. Their previous victories had come at Musselburgh and Redcar.

Also successful at Catterick on Friday was the Dean Harron-bred Canford’s Joy who landed the opening six-furlong two-year-old race for the Ann Duffield yard. The Canford Cliffs bay, who is out of the Green Desert mare Joyful and thus a half-brother to Roker Park (by Choisir) among others, was winning for the second time in three starts and for the second time since being gelded in early August. He was ridden on Friday by Dundalk-born Shane Gray.