THERE were a few Northern-bred winners in the period under review, starting at Cartmel last Friday week when the Dianne Sayer-trained Beeno won the concluding amateur riders’ handicap hurdle in the hands of Lilly Pinchin.

Despatched as the 9/4 favourite to record his fifth success, the 10-year-old Exit To Nowhere gelding was bred by Anne Kirkwood out of the unraced King’s Theatre mare Kay Theatre, a half-sister to the four-time winner Kinburn from the family of Miller Hill, Mighty Mogul, Line Ball, Court Leader, etc.

On Monday, there were three flat winners. At Pontefract, the Max Irvine-bred Magical Effect recorded his fourth career success when winning the opening six-furlong handicap for the Ruth Carr yard. This seven-year-old New Approach gelding is the first of four recorded foals out of the Orientate mare Purple Glow whose 2015 filly by High Chaparral, Main Desire, won three races.

Bred near Downpatrick by Brian and Ann Marie Kennedy at Meadowlands Stud, the Saeed Bin Suroor-trained Stealth Fighter recorded his third win from eight starts when landing the 10-furlong handicap at Windsor’s evening meeting. A four-year- old son of Kodiac, the bay gelding is the second of five foals out of Green Chorus (by Oratorio), a half-sister to Ithoughitwasover (by Hurricane Run) and to Greenisland (by Fasliyev) from the family of Tadwiga and Rock Lobster.

Also on Monday evening, but at Wolverhampton, the Richard Fahey-trained Primeiro Boy won the opening seven-furlong classified stakes, initiating a 7,955/1 treble for jockey Sean Davis. The 2016 Zebedee gelding was bred by McCracken Farms and is the first of three foals out of the unraced 2012 New Approach mare House Of Roses who comes from the family of Fly To The Stars.

The mile handicap at Brighton on Tuesday was won by the Lucinda Egerton-trained Orobas, a Dark Angel gelding who was posting his fourth success, his second on grass. The seven-year-old was bred by Belfast’s Ciaran MacFerran and is the third and final foal out of the three time-winning Mujadil mare Miss Mujadil.

Finally, it’s back to the jumps and, at Stratford on Tuesday, the two-mile, one-furlong handicap chase went to the Rob Summers-trained September Storm gelding Atlantic Boy. The seven-year-old was bred in Loughbrickland by John Kidd out of the Double Eclipse mare Double Dream (a half-sister to Grey Abbey, by Nestor) whose best produce to date has been the seven-time winner Tagrita (by King’s Theatre).