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- Updated: December 21, 2016
A review of the action from Ludlow on Wednesday, where Emma Lavelle was delighted to see Fox Appeal return to winning ways.
Emma Lavelle was rewarded in her decision to listen to advice from Richard Johnson after he steered Fox Appeal to a first win in more than two years in the Tanners Champagne Handicap Chase at Ludlow on Wednesday.
Although the champion jockey’s suggestion of fitting a tongue tie on the nine-year-old after riding him at Ascot failed to produce a win last time out at Newbury, there was a much more satisfying outcome on this occasion. .
Prominent throughout the extended two-mile-seven-furlong contest, the 4/1 shot stayed on best of them all to pass the post with five lengths in hand of favourite Calett Mad and claim a first win since November 2014.
Lavelle said: “That was great. There is no getting away from the fact that he had dropped to a very nice mark, but he did it really well.
“He did seem in great order and I think the run at Newbury was better than the result. He definitely showed he was on his way back.
“In fairness Richard Johnson rode him at Ascot and said that we should try a tongue tie. We put it on for Newbury and it helped him.
“I said to Richard this morning that he told me to put it on, so he’d better go and win now!”
She added: “It would be the logical …
