Milton Harris suffered the ups and downs of jumps racing when he had a horse put down and later saddled a winner on the New Year’s Day card at Fakenham.

Connections of Kate’s Gift had their patience rewarded when the once seriously-injured gelding opened his account over fences at Leicester.

Conditional rider Aidan Coleman was the jockey in form at Leicester with a 9-1 double on Ours and Latanier.