SOME placement! Having saddled his first racecourse winner at Catterick just three days previously, Downpatrick’s Richard Curran sent out the same horse, The Jam Man, to score under the same rider, Maxine O’Sullivan, at Ayr on Saturday and then again at Sedgefield on Tuesday.

The five-year-old Papal Bull gelding was bred by Leo Reilly and is the seventh of 10 foals out of the Spingspiel mare Kathy Jet who won once on the flat in Italy. Prior to The Jam Man, she had bred three winners, including her first foal, He’s Got Rhythm (by Invincible Spirit), who scored eight times on the flat.

The mare’s 2014 foal was a Papal Bull filly who ran seven times on the level over the past two seasons for John Joe Murphy, while her 2016 filly by Carlotamix was sold last July at Goresbridge where she was knocked down to Liam Lennon. At the Goffs National Hunt Sale in December, Reilly turned down €9,000 for Kathy Jet’s foal by Tullyraine House Stud’s Conduit. The Jam Man’s breeder is one of a group of small breeders from west Cork who have supported the Banbridge-based stallion.

WAR

Also among the winners at Sedgefield on Tuesday was the Pat Turley-bred Drums Of War. Sold through the Meadowlands Stud as a foal at Tattersalls Newmarket, the now six-year-old Youmzain gelding is the sixth of seven foals out of the Octagonal mare Min Asl Wafi, a half-sister to, among other blacktype performers, the European champion three-year-old miler of 2003, Zafeen.

Another Co Down-bred winner in the period under review was the Tikkanen gelding Garrane who got off the mark on his seventh attempt over hurdles at Taunton on Monday.

Bred by Peter Doran, the six-year-old is the fourth of five foals out of the unraced Winged Love mare Ballooley, a half-sister to four winners out of the six-time winning Celtic Cone mare Sip Of Orange.