TWO weeks earlier than last season, the reigning British champion National Hunt jockey Brian Hughes hit the 100-win mark for the current campaign when landing a double at Bangor on Wednesday.

The south Armagh native didn’t have the best of starts to his day at the Welsh track as the first of his four rides, the Richard Hobson-trained 4/6 favourite Our Follet, fell three out in the four-runner three-year-old hurdle.