IT was another good week for Sam Ewing, who rode two of Gordon Elliott’s four winners at Navan last Saturday, one for the Co Meath trainer on Monday at Ayr and another for his boss at the Scottish track on Tuesday.

One of the Navan winners was Jacobs Ladder, who landed the two and a half-mile maiden hurdle at odds of 6/1, beating the 6/5 favourite, Forty Coats, by half a length on his second start over hurdles. Successful in a Down Royal bumper on November 1st, the Mount Nelson bay landed an Oldtown maiden in February last year on his only point-to-point start. He was then trained by Peter Buchanan for his uncle Ian and was ridden by Noel McParlan.