WITH Downpatrick very much in the news following the £400,000 sale at Cheltenham of Patrick Turley’s four-year-old filly My Whirlwind, a double for the Co Down town just failed to materialise when David Maxwell, riding his own Richard Hobson-trained Shantou Flyer, was beaten into second place in the Foxhunter on Friday at Cheltenham by the 7/2 favourite, Hazel Hill.

The London-based property investor was back in action on Sunday at Carlisle where, joining forces with Derrylin trainer David Christie, he enjoyed a St Patrick’s Day success in the three-mile hunter chase with the 2/7 favourite, Road To Riches. This was Maxwell’s second time to ride the 2007 Gamut gelding in public since his £35,000 purchase from Gigginstown House Stud.