FLAT jockey Paddy Mathers recorded his first win of 2024 in the final race at Wolverhampton last Saturday evening and made it two for the year on the same horse in the penultimate race at the same track on Tuesday evening. The wins came on board the Fiona McSharry-trained Berkshire Phantom, a four-year-old Expert Eye gelding who was a 4/1 shot on the first occasion but was sent off as the 11/10 favourite to score over the same seven-furlong trip on Tuesday, doing so by a nose.

At Dundalk last Friday evening, Dylan Browne McMonagle landed the mile maiden for three-year-olds with the once previously-raced Joseph O’Brien-trained Nerano, who justified his starting price of 2/9 when winning comfortably by five lengths, and the 12-furlong handicap on the Ray Cody-trained War Correspondent.