Paul Nicholls has won a 10th National Hunt trainers' championship at Sandown following second place for Just A Par in the bet365 Gold Cup.

Paul Nicholls has won the RSA Worcester Novices’ Chase at Newbury with a few reasonable staying types and Just A Par looked another from the same mould.

JP McManus can look forward to next season with some relish after seeing his two star novice hurdlers My Tent Or Yours and At Fishers Cross enhance their sizeable reputations on the second day of the Grand National meeting at Aintree.

Eugene O’Sullivan’s The Blarney Rose lit up yesterday’s extremely wet Boulta point-to-point fixture by destroying the opposition in the open lightweight.