Welsh riders  Connor Brace, Lorcan Williams and Sean Bowen all caught the judge’s eye at Exeter.

Brace took the opening handicap hurdle on Phillip Hobbs’s Smarty Wild. 

Just over 40 minutes later, Williams was successful on the top weighted Truckers Lodge for Paul Nicholls  and later in the afternoon Sean Bowen won the principal race on the Evan Williams trained Billy Broncho.

In the previous race, Williams’s daughter Isabel riding her father’s 33-1 chance Firebird Flyer was beaten  just three parts of a length by Jai Froid.

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While over at Newcastle,  trainer Tim Vaughan’s  301 mile journey from the Vale of Glamorgan paid off when  his stable jockey west Wales’ Alan Johns won the opening novices’ handicap hurdle on 5-1 chance Oriental Cross.

Meetings, Welsh courses

Chepstow Races

Wednesday, March 20 National Federation of Roofing Contractors Spring Afternoon Racing

This meeting is sponsored by www.nfrc.co.uk

Jump meeting with seven races on the card.

Tickets for this one enclosure meeting can be bought in advance for £16. These tickets will be £21 on the gate.

Children aged 17 & under go free, parking free.

Faucets Spring Afternoon Raceday

Thursday, March 21 Faucets Ltd Spring Afternoon Jump Meeting

Seven races on the card.

Tickets for this one enclosure meeting can be bought in advance for £16. These tickets will be £21 on the gate.

Children aged 17 & under go free and parking is free.

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Los Fas Races, West Wales

Sunday, March 17

St Patrick’s Day racing with seven races on the card.

Irish band Henry Marten’s Ghost will be playing. Tickets are £15 in advance and will be £20 on the gate. 

A bus will operate from Llanelli train station to the racecourse. £1 per journey on a first come, first served basis. 

The bus will leave Llanelli at 11.40am and return from the racecourse at 5.35pm.

Sunday, April 21

Easter Sunday Family Raceday. Seven races on the card plus fairground rides, face painting, go-karts, donkey rides, a rEd Sheeran and Taylor Swift tribute act.

Entertainment will be in the undercover McCoy’s building. Family tickets (2xadults, kids go free) are £25.

Feature race is the West Wales National over three and a half miles, won in 2018 by the Peter Bowen trained Henri Parry Morgan.