Trainer Alan Swinbank is keen to step Ella up in class so she can try to earn some black type for breeding purposes.

Ella put up a gutsy display in the mud to open her account in the Ladbrokes Fillies’ Handicap at Pontefract.

In-form trainer Keith Reveley bagged a one-two with Brave Rebellion and Truckers Lady in the feature John Smith’s No Nonsense Novices’ Chase at Kelso.