In-form training combination hail 'dream start' to new season after third winner from just five runners

David Killahena and Graeme McPherson have enjoyed a red-hot start to the new jumps season and struck with Leave Her To Me in the 2m5f mares’ handicap hurdle.

The training combination have saddled three winners from five runners since the campaign began on Saturday and the seven-year-old followed up her victory at Hereford in March.

Nick Slatter’s mount jumped particularly well at the third-last and found plenty on the run-in to score by two and three-quarter lengths.

McPherson said: “She’s a lovely, tough mare and coped with this quicker ground well. Nick gave her a super ride from the front, drew the sting out of them and kept enough up his sleeve for after the last. He said he felt like he was in the air for 30 seconds at the third-last!”

He added: “It’s been a dream start. We have around a dozen horses in for the summer and I’d like to think they’re all capable of winning, so we’d love to get upwards of ten winners through the summer.”

Easy winner

Time To Bite dominated the feature 2m4f handicap chase under Bryan Carver. The Chris Honour-trained ten-year-old relished the return to quicker ground and cruised home by nine lengths.

Cobden double

Harry Cobden was successful on his two rides, winning the 3m1f handicap hurdle on Mark Rimell’s 12-year-old I’m A Starman and the 2m handicap hurdle on the Emma Lavelle-trained Indemnity.

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