IT was great that racing got the go-ahead at Down Royal on Wednesday as three northern-based trainers saddled winners, starting with Liam Lennon who sent out his own Benarty Hill to land the first of the two and a half-mile handicap chases.

The winner of a Toomebridge maiden in September 2015, the eight-year-old September Storm gelding was bred outside Loughbrickland by Gail Kidd and is the seventh of eight foals out of the Executive Perk mare Crossmacahilly who never travelled too far for her matings. September Storm was standing with the Kidds when the mare was also covered by the Monsun stallion in 2009 and 2008. Her four previous foals were by Winged Love while her first was by Insan. This is the family of the recently-deceased Spot Thedifference.