Hugo there for Parker

Andrew Parker gained the biggest success of his three-year training career when Hugo De Grez put up a game staying performance under Brian Storey to win the £20,000 (€31,300) Tote Placepot Champion Chase at Kelso.

Andrew Parker gained the biggest success of his three-year training career when Hugo De Grez put up a game staying performance under Brian Storey to win the £20,000 (€31,300) Tote Placepot Champion Chase at Kelso.

Owners Ray and Anita Green are enjoying a splendid run, with their colours having now been carried to victory 16 times this season, and the former said: “Hugo had a wind operation after being pulled up in the Eider Chase last season.

“But we dispensed with a tongue strap when he won at Carlisle last time and we left it off today as well, he was hating it. Brian has now ridden 97 winners for us.”

Pertemps King George VI Chase entry Truckers Tavern was beaten one and three-quarter lengths into third, but he was conceding 12lb to the winner and might well have won but for a mistake two-out.

Only time will tell if Truckers Tavern runs at Kempton but Telemoss certainly has a Boxing Day date at the track after making it two wins out of two over fences with the minimum of fuss under Tony Dobbin in the Jooglie Brig Novices’ Chase.

He boasted some smart form over hurdles and has certainly taken to the chasing game, travelling well and jumping well from the outset for Dobbin in the three mile, one furlong test.

Sending him into the lead at the final fence, Dobbin asked him to do no more than was required in the very testing ground to hold the renewed challenge from Clonshire Paddy by a length.

Not surprisingly, Telemoss will now step up in class and trainer Nicky Richards said: “He jumped great, but ideally ground on the easy side of good suits him best, he has springs in his feet – we will have to see how he is, but we are looking at the Feltham Chase at Kempton now.”

Dobbin is now only one short of a half century for the season having earlier initiated a double on Lenny Lungo’s True North in the Millhouse Hospitality ‘National Hunt’ Novices’ Handicap Hurdle.

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