THIS week’s list of Northern-connected winners is headed by the filly I’m So Fancy who won her second listed race in succession when landing the Dubai Duty Free Millennium Millionaire Celebration Stakes at the Curragh.

The four-year-old runs in the colours of Elspeth Nicholson who owns her in partnership with Homer Scott. Scott stands the filly’s 15-year-old sire Rajj (by Danehill out of Makarova, by Sadler’s Wells) at Lisheen Stud which was also credited with breeding Saturday’s winner.

Trained by Jessica Harrington, I’m So Fancy is one of six fillies, plus one colt, out of the King’s Best mare Royal Jelly, whose five runners to date have all won.

“It’s always nice to get a winner,” said the owner’s husband Jim Nicholson, chairman of Down Royal racecourse and, of course, well-known Crossgar wine merchant. He added: “We also have I’m So Fancy’s two-year-old full-sister, Fancy Feat, with Jessica and are looking forward to her running.” I’m So Fancy had five outings as a juvenile, winning a maiden on her last start at Navan in October 2016, and while she didn’t visit the winner’s enclosure last season, she was Group 3 and listed-placed.

Two other Northern-connected winners during the period under review were Polly Glide and Aussie Valentine who both scored last Thursday week. Polly Glide made all to land a fillies’ handicap over an extended mile at Hamilton in the hands of Paul Hanagan. The four-year-old, by Nathaniel, is trained by Dungannon’s Lee Smyth for David Adam, a research chemist at the University of Glasgow.

Polly Glide was previously trained by Luca Cumani, with this being her third start for Lee.

She seems to like Hamilton as, on her first outing for her new connections in early May, she finished second in a maiden there before pulling too hard early on in a listed race at Ayr later that month.

The Ado McGuinness-trained Aussie Valentine was winning for the fifth time in his career, and for the second time in succession, when landing the nine-furlong rated race at Tipperary under stable apprentice Thomas Sherry.

The seven-year-old Aussie Rules gelding, who runs in the colours of Gary Devlin and Joe McCrory, was purchased at the Newmarket horses in training sale by McGuinness’s assistant Stephen Thorne’s Shamrock Thoroughbreds. Aussie Valentine will be one of the horses on view at McGuinness’s open day tomorrow at Hayestown House, Lusk.