There were doubles for Richard Hannon, Pat Eddery and Michael Hills at Leicester yesterday, but trainer Peter Makin had the most to celebrate.

Makin equalled his tally of last year when Eddery forced Pomona to a short-head victory over Duello and Jimmy Quinn in the Ermine Street Handicap.

More remarkably the win meant that the Marlborough trainer, who has now had 28 victories in 1996, was scoring with his fourth runner in a row after the successes of Thordis at Doncaster on Friday, Wilcuma at Newbury on Saturday and Oggi at Leicester on Monday.

Eddery and Quinn had a great battle through the final furlong and when they crossed the line, no-one could name the winner. Least of all Makin, who thought his filly, the 7 to 2 market leader, had just gone under.

"Pat said she had got to the front and just jinked, and I didn't think we had won," he said. "But when you are on a high, it all goes right."

Makin could not make it five from five in the concluding Tugby Median Auction Maiden (Div Two) won by 11 to 10 favourite Refuse To Lose.

Eddery initiated his double with a dramatic victory on Hannon's Fairy Knight in the Castle Handicap.

Those who had supported the son of Fairy King to 5 to 2 favourite in the 18-runner contest must have been shaking their heads in disbelief as Eddery had just four behind him once in line for home. But the jockey weaved through the traffic to lead inside the last to register a length-and-a-quarter win over Renown.

Hills' double came aboard Musalsal, trained by his father Barry, and Jack Berry's Power Game.

Musalsal, filth to Indiscreet in York's Convivial Maiden on his debut in August, gave Hills Snr his 15th winner of the last fortnight when taking the EBF Hoby Maiden by two and a half lengths from Henry Cecil's newcomer Kyle Rhea.