WHILE no one minds a bit of outside competition, it was good to see five of the six races at the East Antrim meeting at Loughanmore on Saturday being won by northern yards.

The hunt did extremely well to have all races sponsored but landowner Wilson Dennison couldn’t recoup his outlay on the opening four-year-old maiden with Ballyoptic’s second place finish in the Islandbawn winners of one being his best result of the day.