KELSO REVIEW - WEDNESDAY 6TH MAY 2009

Simon Shirley-Beavan’s prolific-winning point-to-pointer Minouchka (11-4) and Kelly Bryson lifted the £10,000 Dryburgh Abbey Hotel Novices’ Chase for the Bonchester Bridge yard at Kelso on Wednesday 6 May.

Minouchka stayed on gamely to beat the 11-8 fav Reel Charmer by one and three-quarter lengths in a cracking finish to clinch her 12^th career victory.

Galashiels-born Bryson (23) said: “I’ve always wanted to ride a winner at Kelso. I’m delighted. She’s a star.”

Lucinda Russell, top Scots jump trainer in 2008-09 with 31 winners, enjoyed her first success of the campaign as Breakwater House (4-1 jt fav) won the opening novices’ handicap hurdle under Peter Buchanan in game fashion.

Barry Murtagh’s Pete and Ewan Whillans cruised to an 8-1 victory in the conditional jockeys’ novices’ handicap hurdle and Kinfayre Boy sealed a Cumbrian double in the selling handicap chase at 15-2 for Dianne Sayer and Ryan Mania.

Trish Robson, based at Otterburn, near Hexham, saddled her first winner under rules with Senora Moss romping to victory in the Colin Furness Novices’ Hunters’ Chase at 9-2.

Senora Moss, owned by Gattonside’s Ann Rutherford, was ridden by Robson’s brother, Alistair Findlay, to a 22 length triumph.

George Bewley’s Nicozetto (12-1) clinched a tartan treble in the Park Place Handicap Chase under Barry Keniry and Still At Lunch (15-2) won the SIS Handicap Hurdle for Kate Walton and Richard McGrath.