Santando and Rock share honours

Santando, who was a credible sixth in the 2003 St Leger, got off the mark over timber when dead-heating with Thunder Rock in the Play 3 Card Poker skybetvegas.com Novices’ Hurdle at Plumpton.

The seven-year-old looked nailed on jumping the second-last, but Tony McCoy got a sweet tune out of Thunder Rock and joined Peter Bowen’s charge – returned at 7-2 – on the run-in.