Wincanton: Al Dancer takes Badger Beer Chase and Paul Nicholls claims five winners

Trainer Paul Nicholls enjoyed five winners, with Swingin Safari landing the concluding Bumper after Rubaud (11-10f) held off Brentford Hope to win the three-runner Elite Hurdle.

Nicholls and jockey Harry Cobden also won the opening novices’ hurdle with Sorceleur (2-9f).

The pair teamed up again with Larchmont Lass (11-4f) in the mares’ handicap hurdle run in memory of Nicholls’ good friend Richard Barber, after Beau Balko (9-2) took the handicap chase under Ben Bromley.

King Turgeon, partnered by Jack Tudor for David Pipe, secured the Grand Sefton Chase at Aintree over the Grand National fences.

Lord Melbourne won Doncaster’s November Handicap at 14-1 for trainer Ralph Beckett and rider Jack Doughty.

Britain’s oldest jockey, 57-year-old Jimmy Quinn, was second to last of the 22 finishers on Dark Moon Rising, ending a career which yielded more than 1,500 winners.

Scottish trainer Lucinda Russell secured her 1,000th career win with Starlyte ridden to victory at Kelso by Patrick Wadge.