ON the jockey front this week, kudos again must go to the reigning British jumps champion Brian Hughes who recorded a treble on the nine-race jumpers’ bumpers card at Newcastle on Wednesday.

Also under National Hunt rules, but at Ayr on Monday, Co Sligo native Derek Fox landed a handicap chase on Strong Economy. A winner over three miles at the same venue in December on his previous start, the nine-year-old Sandmason gelding is trained by Co Antrim-born Ian Duncan.