PHILLIP Enright put the seal on a productive week when teaming up with Sam Curling for a double in Downpatrick through Wing Back and Fire Coral.

Wing Back (7/4f) was heavily backed to land the Denvir’s Of Downpatrick Handicap Hurdle as he was available at 16/1 in the morning. Favourite-backers were on good terms with themselves when Enright pushed him into the lead over the last and the five-year-old kept on well to make the breakthrough by four and a half lengths for owner Pius Collins.

“We put the hood back on him and [he] relaxed a bit better today,” Enright reported. “He kept going up the hill and jumped well all the way. Around here, it is a quicker track and they went a bit quicker and he just relaxed a bit more.”

Red-hot run

Fire Coral (7/2 joint favourite) hunted down Tiny Angel to claim the Randox Handicap Hurdle over an extended two miles and five furlongs. The always-prominent Tiny Angel looked to have the race at her mercy on the climb for home, but Enright got after Fire Coral who answered every call to get up by a neck close home for the Keep It Pucked Out Syndicate.

“We got her from Cormac Farrell and she had good runs for him too,” Curling explained. “She hasn’t improved much, but I’d say the trip today suited her ideally. She was always going to get her day. She’s tough and she jumped well today.”

This was Enright’s sixth winner of the week. He picked up a two-day suspension for frequency with the whip aboard Fire Coral.

SAM Ewing was quickly into stride as he bagged the first two races on the card with the Straffan Racing Partnership’s Atomic Queen getting the ball rolling in the ITBA Mares Maiden Hurdle.

The 5/1 chance tracked throughout and made headway on the inner to get on terms over the last. Ewing sent her on upon entering the straight and the Flemensfirth mare put five lengths on 5/4 favourite Galileo Springs.

“She won her bumper and then she backed it up with a good run in a winners’ bumper,” trainer Peter Fahey said. “She is a nice filly going forward, definitely. You won’t see the best of her until she gets to a better track - more of a galloping track suits her.”

Pleasant surprise

Ewing also did the steering on Catena Zapata, who sprang an 11/1 surprise in the Randox Rated Hurdle.

In first-time cheekpieces, the outsider of four runners made virtually all and had his rivals on the stretch after the third-last flight. He kept up the gallop after the last to sail in by five and a half lengths in the colours of Mrs Majella Crabbe.

This was his second run since switching to Ian Donoghue, who said: “We schooled him Wednesday morning at home and he jumped very well. We knew coming out of Henry’s (de Bromhead) all his jump well. I’m delighted.

“It wasn’t the plan to make it, I left it up to Sam to do whatever he wanted. There was no-one going to go, so he went himself.”

JOHN McConnell also enjoyed a brace of winners at the northern venue, initiated by in-form Mrs Mc Go (3/1) in the WTW Willis Mares Handicap Hurdle over the extended two miles and five furlongs.

She shed her maiden tag by 10 lengths in Bellewstown last month and posted another wide-margin success for owner Thomas McGeough. Dylan Kidd brought her through to dispute the lead at the penultimate hurdle and she soon took over, running on to win by five and a half lengths.

“Dylan was banned the last time (in Bellewstown), so it was good he got back on her this time,” McConnell said. “I said to Tommy afterwards that up to three miles she might be better again. She might still have a little bit left in her mark at that. I’m going to try and convince Tommy to take her to Cheltenham with us in October. I think there is a three-mile race there for her.”

Reign supreme

McConnell’s Minella Supreme justified odds-on favouritism in the Download The Tote App Flat Race.

Finn Buckley set out to make all on the 4/5 favourite, but the pair were joined by Crossbar Getaway with three furlongs to race. Minella Supreme cranked up the pressure, though, over a furlong out and powered home by four lengths for the Mandarin Syndicate.

“I was more worried about tactically it being a messy race and getting beaten that way than getting beaten any other way,” McConnell said. “He jumps very well as well, so that will be his game eventually. We might go for a winners’ bumper or we might go hurdling, we’ll see.”

Double green in the green

Stuart Crawford and J.J. Slevin combined for a winner with Simon Munir and Isaac Souede’s Dramatic License (6/1) in the Alan Dunlop Agri Machinery Maiden Hurdle. Jumping the last hurdle in third, Slevin rode him into second in the final 150 yards and got up to mow down the gambled-on Cut The Rope by a neck.

“He always ran very well here in his three previous goes,” Slevin commented. “He was giving me the feel that he was going to get into a good rhythm and roll away, so I said I’d come around them. Obviously, we gave away a bit of ground doing that, but it worked out.”