MANY congratulations to Downpatrick’s Richard Curran who saddled his first racecourse winner when the Maxine O’Sullivan-ridden The Jam Man landed the extended three-mile, one-furlong handicap hurdle at Catterick on Wednesday.

Supported in to 9/2 from 11/2 on course, the five-year-old Papal Bull gelding is just one of two horses Richard has for the track this season. In the past five years, he has had 11 runners in Ireland and the same number in Britain, The Jam Man having finished sixth of eight over a similar trip at Ayr last month.