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Sam the man as Hereford reopens
- Updated: October 6, 2016
A review of the action as racing returned to Hereford for the first time in four years on Thursday afternoon.
Jockey Sam Twiston-Davies was the man to follow at Hereford’s grand reopening as the jockey secured an impressive treble on the card.
With the much-missed course staging National Hunt racing for the first time since December 2012, those who had followed Twiston-Davies blindly were in clover.
The jockey’s biggest success came in the feature bet365.com Silver Salver Handicap Chase as Belmount (5/2 joint-favourite) kept up the gallop to win by two and a quarter lengths for Twiston-Davies’ father, Nigel.
The winning trainer said: “It’s superb to be back at the old stomping ground and it is great to win a race here.
“I trained my first two winners here as a trainer and rode them, though they were not my first as a jockey.
“It’s lovely to be back and well done to ARC (Hereford’s owners, Arena Racing Company) for putting it back on.”
The Twiston-Davies family …
