IT was a good afternoon for northern breeders last Friday at Doncaster where three of the seven winners were foaled in the region including Josses Hill who got off the mark over fences at his second attempt under Barry Geraghty.

Runner-up to the highly-rated Ptit Zig over two miles, three furlongs in a Grade 2 novices’ contest at Ascot last month when despatched the 10/11 market leader, the Nicky Henderson-trained Winged Love gelding justified odds of 4/11 over Friday’s shorter trip of an extended two miles.

Winner over a similar distance of the Grade 2 novices’ hurdle at Aintree’s Grand National meeting, Josses Hill had previously finished second to Vautour in the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle (Grade 1) at Cheltenham.

The bay was bred out of the Glacial Storm mare Credora Storm by Donaghacloney veterinary surgeon Ian Moore in whose colours he finished second to Faugheen in a bumper at the 2013 Punchestown Festival when trained by Andy Oliver.

Winner of the extended two-mile novices’ hurdle at Doncaster for the in-form partnership of trainer Nicky Richards and jockey Brian Harding was the King’s Theatre gelding Glingerburn who won at the same track in November.

The seven-year-old was bred in Ballycastle by Colm McHenry and is the fifth of eight foals out of the unraced Broken Hearted mare Wychnor Dawn, a half-sister to the Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Cool Dawn. Best of the dam’s previous winners was the four-time scorer Aegean Dawn (by Alflora).

Rounding up the trio of northern-bred winners at the south Yorkshire track was Achimota who landed the three-mile handicap chase in the hands of Charlie Poste.

Although it’s a long time since the Double Eclipse gelding recorded his only previous victory (in a handicap hurdle at Haydock in December 2011), the Graeme McPherson-trained nine-year-old has regularly made the frame. He was bred by the late Joe Magee out of the Montelimar mare Tullyfoyle.