DORSET trainer Sally Alner secured a spectacular double at the New Forest meeting at Larkhill.
The gusty conditions weren’t enough to deter the avid spectators, who saw an excellent afternoon of entertainment, including seeing wins for both Harriet Waight and Sally Rawlins.
The riding honours were shared by Martin McIntyre and Lorcan Williams who both secured riding doubles.
Lorcan who started this season as a novice with one winner to his name is now the leading rider at Larkhill after five meetings and must have a good chance of securing the best jockey award for the seven meetings.
Lorcan began the day with a very easy win on the Bill Dupont owned and Alner-trained Thereyarsee who won the Intermediate race by 15 lengths.
Waight was delighted to be back in the winner’s enclosure when her mare Bee Crossing was left clear at the second last after the departure of Delineate and won the Maiden race by 10 lengths.
Describing her charge as a bit of a monkey at home she had shown ability on her debut in 2016 but had not got round this season.
The feature race, the Timico Mixed Open race, was a good battle between There’s No Panic ridden by Will Biddick, and Sidbury Hill ridden by Martin McIntyre.
The latter looked to be getting the better of the argument when making a mistake at the second last but this hardly stopped him and he soon asserted with there being six lengths in hand over The Gunner Brady who stayed on to be second.
It is rare that a Larkhill meeting takes place without a Jack Barber-trained winner and this meeting was no exception when King Calvin was an easy winner of the two-and-a-half-mile Maiden.
The Restricted race had a dramatic conclusion with two of the eight strong field departing at the 15th fence, and Fortune Bound when in the lead fell at the next fence.
This left Swivel well clear of his remaining rivals and he was able to come veer to give James King a very easy winner.
Elsewhere, Tom Barton supplemented his Badbury Rings win last week when winning the Novice Riders for Alner and Williams, while the two pony races followed, with Daniel Ellis, aged 12, from Bridgend winning the 138 centimetres race aboard Clear the Track, and Luca Morgan, 15, winning the 148 centimetres race aboard Pacman.
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