DUNGANNON-born jockey Barry McHugh, who qualified from RACE in 1999, rode his first winner in Ireland last Friday week night when the Cool Silk Partnership’s Charming Kid justified his position at the head of the market in the J. Duffy Services Race over six furlongs at Dundalk.

Recording his second success from seven starts, the three-year-old Charm Spirit colt is trained by McHugh’s boss, Richard Fahey, who didn’t travel from Malton to his native Co Louth for the meeting but on hand to welcome the winners back to the No 1 spot was Barry’s father Sean.