THE first of an eight-race card was a 5f maiden for two-year-olds. The market leaders This Is For You (6/5 fav) and Just Glamorous broke well and had the race to themselves, steadily pulling well clear of the rest. The favourite, trained by Andrew Balding, gained a distinct advantage at the furlong pole and extended it under Ed Greatrex to two lengths.

Local trainers supplied most of the runners in the 5f handicap and it was Christopher Mason’s Jaganory (9/4 fav) who came out on top. Ed Greatrex had the horse prominent from early on, and after he took an undisputed lead two out he was always holding Diminutive.

Zaria had won her last two races, both at Chepstow, for trainer Richard Price and apprentice jockey Tom Marquand. She made it three from three in the one mile fillies’ handicap, leading a furlong out and battling on grimly to hold Bipartisan on the far side and Taurian on the stands rails by a neck. She is another who might run again here soon.

­­Not many got into the race for the second division. Tatiani made most of the running on the stands side, but could offer no resistance when Stanlow (6/1 from 16s in the morning) was driven past him 150 yards out. Suddenly it became easy for Franny Norton aboard the winner, who drew three lengths clear.

Bernard Llewellyn trained five of the 11 runners in the 2m2f handicap but the best any could do was third. Call It On (12/1), trained in Yorkshire by Philip Kirby, was taken to the front by Louis Steward fully three furlongs out and galloped on resolutely. Our Folly just held second place, just over two lengths behind. The day’s banker for many, Alboretta, ran disappointingly.

Llewellyn had only two in the 1m4f handicap and although they were the outsiders of the field, that didn’t stop them fighting out the finish. Borak had made all the running and for a moment appeared to have done enough, until the sustained challenge of stablemate Marengo (14/1) succeeded with about fifty yards to go.

The finale was a race for lady amateur riders over 1m2f. Conditions had become decidedly murky, but there was a good finish, with four different leaders in the last quarter mile. After Captain Oats had hit the front inside the final furlong he was collared by Flag Of Glory (4/1) in the last 75 yards (4/1), who won by three quarters of a length. Peter Hiatt trained the winner, which was the jockey Michelle Edden’s first at Chepstow.