One would not have imagined Exeter’s concluding Upton Lakes And Lodges Amateur Riders’ Handicap Hurdle would have caused so much excitement.

STEVE Whiteley, a heating engineer from North Devon, hit the jackpot at Exeter when he landed a massive rollover Jackpot courtesy of 12-1 chance Lupita in the final leg.

Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney has called for Ted Hughes to be honoured in the Poets’ Corner of Westminster Abbey.