THE Western meeting at Wadebridge suffered badly from small fields on Saturday but this benefited the eagle-eyed bloodstock agent/trainer Tom Malone.

His seven-year-old Kutub gelding The Last But One walked over in the ladies’ open, giving Jo Supple an easy win, before finishing alone under Will Biddick in the men’s open as his sole rival, King Of Alcatraz, pulled up at the last fence.

Dean Summersby recorded a more traditional training double in the first two races with two of the day’s five Irish-bred winners. The second of the pair was the Darren Edwards-ridden favourite, Cloudy Music, who won the open maiden by half a length. The six-year-old Cloudings mare was bred by James Hannon out Deemiss (by Buckskin).

BIDDICK DOUBLE

On Sunday, Biddick was one of three riders to land a double on the six-race card at Buckfastleigh where two winners were bred in Ireland.

Biddick’s brace came up in the final two races with Malone supplying the winner of the mares’ maiden in the shape of the once previously-raced Isla’s Dream, a Notnowcato five-year-old for whom the owner/trainer gave €33,000 at the 2017 August Sale at Tattersalls.

Malone saddled The Last But One in the three-runner mixed open but the Biddick-partnered bay went down by three lengths to the Lisa Jefford-trained favourite Master Baker who brought up a double for Jo Supple.

In the six-runner confined maiden over two and a half miles, Josh Newman completed his double on the Nikki Frost-trained odds-on favourite Minimalistic, a seven-year-old Definite Article gelding out of the Old Vic mare Grangeclare Star.