Graham Lee was out of luck on his return to the saddle after nearly three months on the sidelines.

Braddock can make up for lost time in his first race for over a year by winning the Heinz Squeezeme Fish & Chips Handicap at Newcastle tomorrow.

MONGER LANE has a fine chance of completing a course and distance double at Leicester by taking the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry Handicap Chase.

Caesar’s Palace put up an astonishing performance to win the Orangina Handicap Hurdle at Ayr for Kinross trainer Lucinda Russell.

Tony Dobbin stole the show at Ayr with a four-timer courtesy of Rasharrow, Silver Jack, Monet’s Garden and Programme Girl

Julia Feilden sent Welsh Touch and Najaaba to Redcar today from her Newmarket base and came within a whisker of pulling off a double at massive odds.

Graham Lee, the leading rider at last week’s Cheltenham Festival, continued his rich vein of form with a near 93-1 treble on Rogues Gallery, Manbow and Rayshan at Wetherby today.

Sue Smith was leading trainer at Wetherby last season and she was on the mark again at the West Yorkshire track this afternoon with Noshinannikin.

Richard Fahey has his dual-purpose string in top form and to prove the point the Malton trainer was on the mark with a double over jumps at Catterick and with a dead-heat on the flat at Southwell yesterday.

Trainer Micky Hammond can rule with Elvis Reigns in the Anderson Strathern Challenge Trophy (Novices’ Handicap Chase) at Musselburgh tomorrow.

With Hexham abandoned due to the wet spell that has gripped Britain, Ludlow provides the only jumping action.

Wetherby's meeting survived an early-morning inspection after first frost and then snow had put the fixture in doubt.