Phillips back on track

Richard Phillips received a belated but most welcome Christmas present when General Gossip got his team back on the scoresheet in the skybetvegas.com Novices’ Handicap Hurdle at Wetherby today.

Warren Marston sent General Gossip into the lead going to what had become the the penultimate flight (the second-last was omitted), and though getting tired in the testing ground in the closing stages, he still had four lengths to spare over Young Claude at the line.