Napolitain conquers for McCoy

Napolitain and Tony McCoy just held on to take an incident-packed renewal of the Grade One totesport.com Scilly Isles Novices’ Chase at Sandown.

The champion jockey had made the Paul Nicholls-trained gelding the best of his rides in his newspaper column, and set out to make it a test on the five-year-old against three opponents, which included stablemate and 6-5 favourite Albuhera.