Big Jackpot carry-over at Warwick

TODAY'S TOTE Jackpot at Warwick will have a carry-over of £453,193 after only a 10p line was won yesterday.

The tote's spokesman Rob Hartnett said: "The 10p winning line came via Tote Direct through a tote bookmakers shop in Walsall. The winner invested only £6.40 and has won £35,751.

"We are delighted that not only do we have a winner but the bulk of the pool will go on to Warwick tomorrow.

"The carry forward will be £453,193. We have now got to the stage that the Jackpot gets very exciting. The pool tomorrow will easily exceed £3/4 million and its not a million to one chance that it will hit the magic million itself."

Jackpot punters could do worse than pick on Dancing Cavalier as a banker. The gelding escapes a penalty for his clear-cut win at Nottingham last time in an apprentice handicap. Although not the most consistent of animals, Paul Fredericks takes the ride again and the partnership should go close to winning the Syd Mercer Memorial Handicap.

With Golden Hadeer likely to take them along at a decent lick, Fredericks should be able to settle Dancing Cavalier in at the back of the field and Reg Hollinshead is sure to have instructed his apprentice just how to ride this gelding. Despite the slight question-mark hanging over his temperament, Dancing Cavalier may repay support.

At Musselburgh yesterday, Jack Berry's stable apprentices Ted Durcan and Paul Fessey were the men in form, as the pair took the opening two races on Ellenbrook and Trilby respectively.

The win by Fessey in the Craiglith Claiming Stakes sees the in-form young pilot level on 23 with Royston French successful on Liquid Gold at Nottingham at the top of the apprentices' table.

Ellenbrook, Berry's busiest juvenile of the season has now won four times in nine outings and judging by this length and a half success over Makahu Don she shows no signs of letting up.

Gordon Richards, much better known for his National Hunt exploits, struck on the Flat for the first time in three years when Trilby got her head in front in no uncertain style in the Yvonne Murray MBE Handicap.

Under a fine ride from Durcan the filly had no problem seeing out the two mile trip and she stormed home seven lengths clear of her recent Hamilton conqueror Hasta La Vista.

Tim Easterby sprinted off to catch a train minutes after High Spirits came home a three length winner of the Wallyford Handicap in the hands of evergreen light-weight Lindsay Charnock.

As Easterby headed to catch a taxi to the station his travelling head lad Grainger Morgan-Evans remarked: "This seems to be the right trip on this ground and he is a nice improving young horse."

Bryan McMahon and Lee Newton took the honours at Nottingham when combining for a 220 to.

double. The pair, who had teamed up to win with The Happy Fox at Wolverhampton on Saturday night, set up the double when 16 to 1 outsider Tonnerre took the Sun Chemical Handicap Stakes

They completed it in the concluding Miles 33 Handicap, in which top-weight Superb it made all the running to beat Aquatic Queen by two lengths at 12 to 1.