Title-hunting Paul Nicholls makes it 14 winners from last 32 runners

Paul Nicholls’s march towards a 10th champion trainer’s title continued to gather pace as his recent return to form continued with a treble at Taunton.

Though enduring a lean spell during December and January, the Ditcheat handler made it 14 winners from his last 32 runners courtesy of victories for The Brock Again, Antartica De Thaix and Captain Buck’s.

After finishing second over fences at Wincanton earlier this month, The Brock Again (15-8) went one better when initiating the Nicholls three-timer with a length-and-three-quarters win under Sam Twiston-Davies in the Royal Bath & West Novices’ Handicap Chase.