'Don't stop the bus' - Hanmer continues his red-hot run with two more winners

Tuesday: Bangor

Gary Hanmer is relishing trying to beat his best season he registered last term after the trainer continued his flying start to the new campaign with a double on the card.

Hanmer took his strike-rate to a red-hot 36 per cent with his fifth and sixth winners of the new season when Stony Man bolted up in the 2m½f maiden hurdle before Daranova landed back-to-back wins at the track in the 3m handicap chase.

"All's ticking along nicely, it's super," the trainer said. "Daranova really toughed it out. He went up 10lb for his last win and it was going to be a big ask, especially when Kevin [Brogan] lost his stick. He coped with it admirably.

"Stony Man was a cut above as we expected him to need the run badly. We've got big ideas with him, but we'll go one step at a time."

The Cheshire-based trainer achieved a personal-best 31 winners in the 2021-22 season and has his eyes set on eclipsing that total this term already.

He said: "We just need to maintain it by having more runners. I wouldn't want to change it for anything, with the staff and everyone involved, it's all going so well.

"We're just trying to acquire better types and it's onwards and upwards. Don't stop the bus, as they say."

Red reverse

Donald McCain was successful in the 2m½f mares' novice handicap hurdle but not with his chief hope after second-string Simply Red won easily from odds-on favourite Durragh.

McCain and winning jockey Peter Kavanagh doubled up when Steinkraus won the concluding 2m7f handicap hurdle.

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