IT was another good week for Co Armagh-born jockey Brian Hughes who, from last Friday to this Thursday, had ridden seven winners.

His most lucrative success came on Saturday with the Tom Gretton-trained Kauto Riko in a two-mile handicap chase at Taunton, but the winner in whom we are most interested is the Keith Dalgeish-trained I’m To Blame who landed the bumper at Musselburgh on Friday.

Bred by Jane Doran out of the Lord Americo mare Swap Shop, the five-year-old Winged Love gelding was scoring for the second time in two starts for owners Paul and Clare Rooney who purchased the bay through Kevin Ross Bloodstock. Since producing I’m To Blame, Swap Shop has had fillies by Fame And Glory (2015) and Sageburg (2017) and a colt in 2016 by Getaway. Hughes had won the earlier two and a half-mile handicap chase on the Donald McCain-trained Nefyn Bay.

Returning to Taunton on Saturday, the extended two-mile novices’ hurdle was won by the 10/11 favourite Brianstorm who brought up a double for trainer Warren Greatrex and jockey Gavin Sheehan. The six-year-old Brian Boro gelding, who had been placed on three of his four previous outings on the track, won his point-to-point maiden at Fairyhouse in April 2016, on his only start between the flags.

Brianstorm is yet another winner for Aaron Metcalfe who bred the bay out of the Classic Cliché mare Coco Moon. He is the second of seven foals out of his dam, who was unraced, as was her dam, Moon Storm.

The latter is dam of the recent Metcalfe-bred winner, Itsnonofurbusiness (by Flemensfirth).