THERE were no winners for Frankie Dettori at Down Royal last Friday but there was one for Dylan Browne McMonagle who then landed the Group 2 Moyglare “Jewels” Blandford Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday on the Joseph O’Brien-trained Lumiere Rock.

There were no winners for the Donegal native on Monday – quite possibly because he had no rides – but he added to his season’s tally by one at Galway on Tuesday and by a further two at Punchestown on Wednesday which saw him breech the 50-win mark for the campaign at home.

Also on the flat in Ireland, there was a win for Luke McAteer at Down Royal last Friday while, across the water, Darragh Keenan was on the mark at Brighton on Monday.

Over jumps, Brian Hughes partnered three winners in the period under review, the first being at Stratford on Saturday when the concluding bumper was won by the 2/5 favourite Aughafatten, another to score for the trio of Philip McBurney (owner), Gerald Quinn (trainer) and Dara McGill (rider).

On Monday, Hughes landed the two and a half mile handicap chase at Perth where Danny McMenamin won the three-mile version.

Derek Fox recorded his second success of the season when winning the extended two-mile maiden hurdle at Kelso on Tuesday with the Lucinda Russell-trained Caithness, a seven-year-old Dylan Thomas gelding who was having just his fourth start.

THE highlight of the week’s racing, from a local point of view, had to be the win of the Natalia Lupini-trained Kitty Rose in the opening Listed Ballylinch Stud Irish EBF Ingabelle Stakes for two-year-old fillies at Leopardstown on Saturday and you can read all about her successes in The Big Interview on pages 14/15 and on 30.

Dean Harron bred two contrasting winners in the past week starting at the Curragh last Sunday when British raider Native American justified 4/5 favouritism by two and a half lengths under Colin Keane in the Tattersalls Ireland Super Auction Sale Stakes for two-year-olds.

The bay colt by Sioux Nation, who won a novice race at York in May on his only previous start, is trained by former Co Louth native Richard Fahey.

Native American was bred by Harron, in partnership with Patricia Casement, and is the last of seven recorded foals out of the Green Desert mare Pencarrow, a half-sister to Tenenbaum and Aischa from the family of Alrassaam and Lady Blackfoot.

Double

The breeding double came up on Tuesday at Laytown where, despite a slipped saddle, the Tom Hamilton-ridden Punk Poet made all to win the O’Neills.Com (Q.R.) seven-furlong handicap.

The six-year-old Power gelding, who is trained by Eddie Lynam for his wife Aileen, is the first of five foals out of the Fastnet Rock mare Just Ching, a half-sister to Front House and Access All Areas.

Also on the breeding front there were wins for the Jeremy Maxwell-bred four-year-old filly Jukebox Annie (by Jukebox Jury – Ismane, by Layman) in the bumper at Newton Abbot on Monday and for the Gerry Cumiskey-bred eight-year-old gelding Laughifuwant (by Roderic O’Connor – Red Fanfare, by First Trump) at Galway on Tuesday.

LOCAL owners and handlers have been registering plenty of hunters’ certificates with the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board and, unsurprisingly, many of these are for horses with ‘Bally’ in their name and all 10 of these belong to Wilson Dennison.

Nine of the geldings are listed as being trained at Loughanmore by Colin McKeever while the 10th – or the second if you look at the names alphabetically – the four-year-old Champs Elysees bay Ballybrittas, is in the care of the owner’s daughter, Caroline McCaldin.

Then there are those horses with ‘hill’ in their names where Dennison is again to the fore as an owner and there’s a mountain range of those, mainly with McKeever and a couple with McCaldin with French and German-bred geldings added to the mix.

If one wasn’t so busy watching sport on TV, it would well worth one’s while having a glance through the certs. At time of writing there were 239 horses on the list of whom 118 were four-year-olds. There were 55 five-year-olds, 24 six-year-olds, 13 seven-year-olds and, obviously then, 29 horses aged eight or over.

IT was a bit of a marathon watching sport on television last weekend, especially if you started around 6am or whatever on Saturday with the first of two Australian Football League quarter finals in Melbourne.

The second, at the GABBA in Brisbane, was of more interest as Tyrone racehorse owner Conor McKenna lined out for the Brisbane Lions as they beat Port Adelaide by 123 points to 75.

THE glory days of Hurricane Fly were recalled last weekend when we learned that Gail Carlisle was back working as a groom.

However, this was not in a paid or racing capacity, as she had been asked by her brother Gareth to help out his partner Clare Abbott who was competing four horses, three at the same level, at the Eventing Ireland National Championships in Kilguilkey House.

Perhaps it was the Gail effect but there were celebrations in the camp as Abbott partnered two winners including one for Ballynahinch’s Lawrence Patterson.