THERE were eight meetings in Britain on Bank Holiday Monday with Alex Edwards, who is well ahead in the Fuller’s men’s championship table, travelling to Eyton-on-Severn where he won on all four of his rides.

The quartet were trained by Philip Rowley who also supplied Edwards with a winner at the hunters’ chase fixture at Cheltenham on Friday evening and one at Cold Harbour on Sunday.

There were small-sized fields at Monday’s South Shropshire meeting where four of the seven winners were Irish-bred including Beggars Bush who won the three-mile open maiden under Immy Robinson, another rider who had a winner at Cheltenham.

Trained by Robinson’s mother Caroline, Beggars Bush is a seven-year-old Mahler gelding who had five runs in this country last season and was having his fourth start in Britain on Monday. He was bred by Martin Cullinane out of the Among Men mare Home For Good.

RIDING TREBLE

Three of the seven winners at Littlewindsor were bred in this country, two of whom gave Will Biddick the first two legs of a riding treble; he also trains the men’s open winner Black Valentine, a seven-year-old Stowaway gelding.

The opening two and a half mile maiden for younger horses at this Cattistock meeting was won by the Paul Hosgood-owned and trained Mystic Court (Christopher Barber) who scored by a short-head from the Martin McIntyre-ridden favourite, Eggardon Hill.

The winner, a five-year-old Court Cave gelding who was having his first start since running twice in November, is out of the Arctic Lord mare My Mystic Rose.

There were six Irish-bred winners on the seven-race card at Llwynddu including Design Plan who landed the opening maiden conditions race under his owner/trainer Emma Moseley, one of four women to ride a winner at this Banwen Point-to-Point Club meeting.

A six-year-old by Blueprint, who had unseated Moseley on his first British start late last month, Design Plan ran 10 times here between March 2016 and March this year. He is out of the Mazaad mare Consproblem.

Byron Moorcroft rode two of the successful Irish-breds, bringing up his double in the concluding maiden on the 3/1 favourite Gowell who he also trains. The seven-year-old Gold Well mare, who was previously in the care of Seamus Mullins, is out of the Supreme Leader mare Glen Supreme.

Half of the eight winners at Maisemore Park were bred in Ireland including the Francesca Nimmo-owned and trained Generation Gap who was having his second start.

The four-year-old Olden Times gelding, who easily justified odds-on favouritism in the three-runner two and a half-mile maiden for younger horses under Co Galway-born Tommie O’Brien, is out of the Luso mare Kerso.

Wexford’s Shane Roche rode his second winner of the weekend at Northaw where five of the six races were won by Irish-breds. This quintet included the Roche-partnered, Andrew Pennock-trained 4/9 favourite Staple Head who landed the concluding two-runner maiden by four lengths.

The six-year-old Morozov gelding, who ran twice here at the end of last season and was having his fourth start in Britain on Monday, is out of Undesperado View (by Un Desperado).

Among the four Irish-bred winners on the seven-race card at Vauterhill was Bob Along Mahler who brought up a double for trainer Stuart Sampson and Kanturk native Bryan Carver in the concluding five-runner maiden. The six-year-old Mahler gelding, who was racing here up to mid-February, was bred by Morgan Kavanagh out of the Bob Back mare Vincenta.

On a good weekend for the pair, there were doubles for both Sam Lee and Dale Peters at Mollington where four of the seven races won were by Irish-breds. These included both of Peters’s mounts, Pride Of Parish who landed the two and a half men’s open for the Alan Hill yard and the restricted winner Benefit Of Luck who the rider trains himself.

There were doubles also for Jack Teal and the northern-based Jack Andrews at Witton Castle where just two Irish-breds, Matts Commission (intermediate) and Royal Chant (restricted) were successful on the six-race card.