SUCCESSFUL Northern-bred horses were a lot more difficult to find this week so kudos to Co Down’s Paddy Murray who is credited as breeder of Sunday’s Princess Margaret Betfred Stakes winner, Santosha.

Providing Shropshire-based, Co Galway-born trainer Dave Loughnane with a first Group 3 success, the bay, who was ridden by Thomas Greatrex, won by three-parts of a length and the same in this six-furlong race for two-year-old fillies.

Third home was the winner’s stable-companion, Caroline Dale (Hollie Doyle).

A daughter of Rathasker Stud’s first-season sire Coulsty (by Kodiac), Santosha runs in the colours of Susan Lynas, as did her dam, Princess Zoffany, whose first and only recorded foal she is.

That 2013 Zoffany mare, who was placed twice as a three-year-old, is herself out of a two-time-winning own-sister to the Group 1-placed listed winner Gold Academy.

Santosha was sent off a 5/1 shot on Sunday. In comparison, she made a winning debut at Lingfield in late June at odds of 50/1, the price at which she was also returned when a close-up third on her only other start, in the Group 2 Duchess of Cambridge Stakes at Newmarket last month.