English Racing Plumpton report: Kadount put his chasing experience to good use as he belatedly got off the mark over fences at Plumpton yesterday. A useful hurdler last season for Alan King, the seven-year-old had been unfortunate to run into some decent types on his previous starts over the larger obstacles.
It had looked as if defeat might be on the cards again when Robert Thornton had to shake his mount up in the early stages after a couple of lazy jumps.
But asked to get into the race down the back straight in the final circuit, Kadount came back on the bridle and surged into the lead past Greenhope and Limerick Boy on the home turn.
Greenhope made a fight of it as best he could over the final two fences but the 6 to 4 favourite had something in hand and stayed on to score by four lengths.
Leighton Aspell was unseated from Bound when a beaten fifth at the third-last fence but was not seriously injured, although he was stood down for the remainder of the day.
Willie McCarthy caught the eye when giving Toulouse-Lautrec a well-judged ride to take the skybet.com Handicap Chase over three miles and five furlongs.
The 21-year-old conditional, who has been based with winning trainer Tom George for five months since going to Britain at the end of the Irish point-to-point season, was enjoying his first victory under Rules but looked most accomplished as he brought the 5 to 1 co-favourite home by two and a half lengths from Apple Joe.
Henrietta Knight just made it through the traffic in time to see the youngest member of her team strike in the opening contest.
It's Blue Chip, the only four-year-old at Knight's West Lockinge stables, powered home through the mud under Warren Marston to take the Skybet Press Red to Bet Now Juvenile Hurdle from Flying Patriarch in front of a bumper Bank Holiday crowd.
