Cheshire trainer Mick Mullineaux sent Methaaly on a reconnaissance mission to Ayr and it paid off when the five-year-old won the Giles Insurance Corporate Handicap.

Adrian Underwood, a 70-year-old lollipop man, will be back patrolling a school crossing near Preston tomorrow but at Ayr today he enjoyed another moment of glory on the racecourse when Look Busy won the £40,000 Giles Insurance Handicap in the hands of apprentice Slade O’Hara.