SAM Ewing took the riding honours at last Saturday’s North-West Region meeting at Carrickadawson where he scored a hat-trick.

In many ways it was probably a little unexpected as his winners on Derry’s Pride and Bipolar Blondie came about when he replaced Dylan Browne-McMonagle who after riding an early double, took a fall in the first division of the mile that required him to sit out the remainder of the day.