NEIL MULHOLLAND has made the transition from journeyman jockey to promising trainer look like a walk in the park. One day he was just another National Hunt rider travelling the country to make a crust.

Nicky Henderson broke new ground when Giorgio Quercus and Bellvano provided the master of Seven Barrows with his first winners at Musselburgh today.

Conditions were very testing at Carlisle but Minster Shadow relished the mud flying as he ran out a game winner of the opening TurfTV Novices' Chase.

Canavan, carrying the colours made famous on the Flat by such stars as Halmahera and Amadeus Wolf, gave owner John Duddy more cause for celebration with victory in the Camerons Brewery Maiden Chase at Sedgefield.