DOWNPATRICK’s Danny McMenamin partnered three winners in the period under review but sadly his victory on Parisencore for his boss Nicky Richards at Wetherby on Friday was followed by a heavy fall at the last in the near two-and-a-half-mile premier handicap chase with Nuts Well.

Thankfully, the jockey was able to walk away unscathed from the incident but the Ann Hamilton-trained Nuts Well, on whom McMenamin won the Grade 2 Monet’s Garden Old Roan Handicap Chase at Aintree in 2020 and five other races, suffered career-ending severe facial injuries in the fall.

McMenamin’s other wins were recorded at Ayr on Saturday and on Wednesday at Musselbugh where on a day of terrible weather conditions, the reigning British jumps jockey champion, Brian Hughes, brought his seasonal total up to 95 with a double.

Co Sligo-born Derek Fox was also on the mark at that meeting, as was Larne trainer Stuart Crawford whose charge Holmes St Georges was ridden to success in the concluding near two-mile handicap hurdle by Ben Bromley in the colours of Simon Munir and Isaac Souede.

Three days earlier at Wexford, those double green colours were carried to victory in the two-and-a-half-mile beginners’ chase by Daryl Jacob on the Crawford-trained Gold Cup Bailly who was having his fourth racecourse start.

This was a first win following three placed efforts over hurdles for the chesnut son of Turgeon who won his maiden first time out under Ben Crawford at Tattersalls in December 2020.

Other jockeys to visit the winner’s enclosure in Britain recently include Caoilin Quinn and Patsy Cosgrave.

Last weekend at Galway, three northern owners had their colours carried to victory viz J.J. Leckey (Saturday), Philip Polly (Sunday) and Paul Hardy (Bank Holiday Monday).

Hardy’s winner was the Andy Oliver-trained newcomer Paris Secret who landed the extended two-year-old fillies’ mile maiden by three-parts of a length under Colin Keane.