Hat-trick of wins for Hawick jockey Jason Hart at Musselburgh
Hawick jockey Jason Hart racked up wins at the double at Musselburgh on Sunday and followed them up with another at the East Lothian racecourse the day after.
The first of that hat-trick of victories was on 1-3 favourite the Mean Fiddler for North Yorkshire trainers John and Sean Quinn in the 2.15pm Irish European Breeders’ Fund Maiden Stakes over five furlongs, landing a payout of £5,940.
Hart – winner of 2026’s £25,000 prize for topping the Sky Bet Sunday Series rankings for fixtures at Musselburgh, Ayr, Hamilton, Thirsk and Pontefract for the second year running – guided the two-year-old chestnut colt over the finishing line three-quarters of a length ahead of Oisin Orr on By Jove Grace, trained at Richard Fahey’s North Yokshire stables.
He only had to wait an hour for his next win, on 9-4 favourite Runninsonofagun, trained in Cumbria by Tristan Davidson, in the day’s Celebrating Veteran Armed Forces Selling Handicap over a mile and 208 yards and that one was also by three-quarters of a length, from Motawaared, ridden by Paul Mulrennan for East Renfrewshire trainer Jim Goldie.
That first-placed finish aboard the four-year-old bay gelding earned prize money of £6,281.
Hart’s next Musselburgh win followed in Monday’s first race, the 2.15pm EBF Restricted Maiden Stakes.
That was on Inns and Out at 7-1, a two-year-old bay gelding trained by North Yorkshire’s Tim Easterby, earning £5,940.
Hart finished that seven-furlong race a length and a quarter in front of David Nolan on Pigeon Pete, trained in Cheshire by Oliver Greenall and Josh Guerriero.
Kelso jockey Jake Dickson also chalked up a win on Monday, in the last race of the day, the 4.45pm Mediterranean Shipping Handicap, on Albegone at 6-1 for Easterby, earning £3,664 for finishing a neck ahead of Hart on the Quinns’ Beerwah.