Trainer Nicky Henderson and jockey Andrew Tinkler ended the day in marvellous fashion with a 545/1 double courtesy of 20/1 Oedipe in the totepool Handicap Chase and 25/1 chance Carole’s Legacy in the concluding John Smith’s Mares Only Standard Open National Hunt Flat Race.

 

 

The master of Seven Barrows said: "Carole’s Legacy is a big and terribly weak filly who won a pretty ordinary race at Warwick and I thought Ravello Bay was our best chance of a winner.

 

 

"She is a full-sister to Mad Max who won a bumper at Newbury earlier this season and the two are very similar types.

 

 

"Both the winner and Ravello Bay will be very nice types to go over hurdles next year."

 

 

Reflecting on his earlier success with Oedipe, who was only having his second outing of the season, Henderson continued: "It was a bit of a rush to get him ready for Cheltenham and we only really ran him there for his owner Billy Brown, who is a great mate and had Fondmort with us.

 

 

"As long as he didn’t suffer from the bounce factor today, we hoped he would effective round here and Andrew has given him a great ride."

 

 

Alan King, who trained both the second Divali Princess and the third, Call Me A Legend, in the concluding race said: "I am thrilled with all three of mine - we got black type for the second and third and my other one finished sixth (Over Sixty).

 

 

"Divali Princess was the one that surprised me a bit because she doesn’t show much at home and ran a blinder. That’s it for this season but they are all the sort that should go on next year and there is this mares’ programme for them. It should all be quite exciting."