Bothy books Festival ticket

Bothy maintained his unbeaten record over timber and qualified himself for the Fred Winter Juvenile Novices’ Handicap Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival with a second success at Taunton.

Keith Mercer made the arduous journey to Somerset from Yorkshire last month to steer Brian Ellison’s representative to success and he repeated the dose in the Perception Matters Ltd Promotional Championship Novices’ Handicap Hurdle.