NORTHERN-bred winners were difficult to find in the period under review but we did spot that the Andy Oliver-bred Living Legend claimed his maiden on the second time of asking at Lingfield on Tuesday. The two-year-old Camelot bay is the only recorded foal out of the Johar mare Jazz Girl who, between the ages of three and six, ran 39 times for Tyrone trainer Oliver and owner Garrett Freyne, winning on eight occasions. Living Legend is trained by Mark Johnston with whom Oliver was at one-time based.

On the jockey front, Patsy Cosgrave continues to notch up winners. At Newmarket last Saturday, he recorded a double which was initiated in the two-mile, two-furlong Cesarewitch Trial Handicap on the Ian Williams-trained favourite Stars Over The Sea. Cosgrave was widely praised for his enterprising tactics on that horse. Co Monaghan-born Conor McGovern had a mixed visit to Ayr last Saturday. He won the mile handicap on the David O’Meara-trained Waarif (which was his fourth time to score on the five-year-old Arcano gelding this season) but, in the following Ayr Silver Cup, picked up a two-day whip suspension when second on the same trainer’s Al Qahwa.