King reigns at Ascot

A 9lb rise in the weights was not enough to stop Ivor's King completing a hat-trick in the Gardiner & Theobald Novices' Handicap Hurdle at Ascot this afternoon.

Previously a winner at Exeter and Wincanton, Colin Tizzard's charge turned the two-mile-three-furlong heat into a procession in the hands of the trainer's son, Joe.