Heiress bolts up for long-serving pair Bare and Jones on fantastic card

If you're ever asked why the Challenger series was set up, remember the story of Kentford Heiress.

She perfectly summed up the thinking that led to programming six £50,000 finals on a late-season jumps card, which was aimed at those who don't always get the chance to compete for good money.

The nine-year-old carried the silks of owner/breeder Ian Bare, whose brown and white colours have been carried by a succession of 'Kentfords' since the 1970s, with Kentford Grebe giving him his best previous payday in the 2004 Newbury Mares' Hurdle Final – a series he helped found.