LIKE many meetings, over many years, Sedgefield’s winners list on Tuesday had the name Reveley on it, not once but twice.

Mary Reveley enjoyed hundreds of winners at the track over years gone by but it was her son Keith and grandson James who stole the limelight here with a fine double on the day, starting with Ivan Boru in the novices’ hurdle.

The duo were delighted with the success and afterwards the winning jockey said: “I should have waited longer in behind in hindsight. He settled better once I got a lead. He is very quirky, but he has a lot of ability.

We think he is a decent horse.”

Later in the afternoon Waltz Darling brought up the double in the handicap hurdle, coming home in taking style and a delighted winning handler said: “James gave him a lovely ride, he settled him out the back and he was cruising the whole way.

He fell out of love with Flat racing but he is a brilliant jumper.”

There was a really popular winner in the final race when the consistent and likeable Amir Pasha came home in front for Middleham trainer Micky Hammond.

Confidently ridden by Jason Maguire, the winning trainer was on hand, saying: “He has been a grand horse for us. His form can be a little in and out but I could do with ten more like him.”

There was a valuable card at Bangor on Wednesday and the feature race went the way of the galloping grey, Stopped Out.

Philip Kirby’s charge appears to be getting better with age and made all the running under a well judged ride from Richie McGrath.

Today has a cracking feel to it, with Cheltenham getting their three day Paddy Power Gold Cup meeting underway, and closer to home Newcastle stage a very interesting sevenrace card, due off at 12.10pm.

While Sam Waley-Cohen was out of luck recently in the Charlie Hall Chase at Wetherby, he hope to land the feature at Cheltenham tomorrow and feels Rajdhani Express is a completely different type to the former Gold Cup winner as he prepares for his second ride in one of the most fiercely competitive handicaps of the season.

The subsequent Gold Cup and dual King George winner Long Run could only finish third as the 2/1 favourite three years ago but amateur jockey Waley-Cohen, who rides both horses for his father, owner Robert, believes Long Run was always destined to excel over further.

Rajdhani Express won at the Cheltenham Festival in March as a novice and followed up in Grade Two company at Ayr, and having shot up the handicap connections were virtually left with no option but to take on the experienced chasers.

“I’ll be riding in what is always an incredibly competitive race to win and you have to run the race of your life,” said Waley-Cohen.

“It’s well suited to secondseason chasers, but it is a ferocious contest and you have to build on last season, and you don’t really know until you get in the fray.

“After Ayr it was the obvious place to go, because it is hard for a horse at that level and handicap mark to find the next target, so it is an obvious option to go after one of the big handicaps and see how get on.

“Everything seems to be in place – he’ll enjoy the ground and he has run well at the course and it’s incredibly exciting to be part of it.”

Asked to compare this weekend’s mount with Long Run, Waley-Cohen said: “They are two very different styles of horse, Rajdhani Express is a lighter, smaller model and Long Run was always shaping to be a three-mile chaser and has done it in that sphere.

“You need a lot of luck inrunning but if all goes to plan and he gets the run of the race he would have every chance of being in the mix, but you need a lot of things in your favour.”