BEFORE anyone asks, the answer is no.

When in contact with Ruth Morrison last week about her return to work at Downpatrick racecourse from maternity leave, she didn’t even mention that her brother, James Black, was going to have a runner in England never mind that he would have a winner!

It was at Stratford on Tuesday that Aidan Coleman partnered the Black-trained, Brian Parkes-owned Impressive Duke to land the two-mile, one-furlong racingtv.com Novices’ Handicap Chase, the bay winning by eight lengths in the eight-runner race.

The eight-year-old Duke Of Marmalade gelding, who was winning for the first time in an interrupted career, wasn’t really bred for the National Hunt sphere being out of the Giant’s Causeway mare Impressionist Art.

At the same meeting, Brian Hughes landed the extended two-mile handicap hurdle on the Donald McCain-trained Graceland. The south Armagh-born jockey also had a winner earlier three days earlier at Hexham and a double at Aintree on Friday evening.