Usher team brave the snow as Black Truffle wins on 100th start

Mark Usher’s team were the only Lambourn representatives to overcome the heavy snow and make it to the West Midlands with the endeavour of transporter James Bennett rewarded as Black Truffle scored on his 100th start.

Shane Gray replaced Nicola Currie – stuck in the snow in Lambourn – in the saddle and steered the nine-year-old to a neck win in division two of the 7f handicap, much to the delight of the Mark Usher Racing Club, in which owners pay £50 a month to be involved with five horses.

It has been an eventful week at Wolverhampton for Bennett, who combines a transport business, livery yard and trainer’s licence and retired Idol Deputy, the joint third winningmost horse at Dunstall Park after he ran at the track on Wednesday evening.