AFTER a relatively quiet period, Brian Hughes rode three winners over four days in the period under review. The first came last Thursday week at Ffos Las when he won the two-mile handicap hurdle on the Donald McCain-trained Noah And The Ark.

At the same meeting, Gordon Elliott sent out Braid Blue to justify odds-on favouritism in the three-mile novices’ hurdle. Ridden by Richard Johnson for Philip McBurney of McBurney Transport, the six-year-old Gold Well gelding, who was bringing up a hat trick over timber, was bred by Danny Doran out of the unraced Grand Lodge mare Outo’Theblue.