Derby-winning trainer Bell relishes break from the day job

Michael Bell aims to conquer South Korea with his recent Glorious Goodwood winner Franklin D and the Derby-winning Newmarket trainer struck in another exotic location when Taper Tantrum landed the maiden hurdle.

It was Bell's second winner at a track he had not been to for more than eight years, and he doubled up when Instant Karma won the 2m2½f handicap hurdle.

"I rode in a hunter chase here in 1983," Bell recalled. "I wasn't a very good jockey - even Luke Harvey was better than me - but Richard Dunwoody won the race and I think it was one of his first winners."