SHEEHAN STILL TOP CLASS ACT

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GAVIN SHEEHAN is not getting as many rides from Warren Greatrex as previously but he is still among the best.

Over the last four seasons, Sheehan accounted for most of Greatrex’s winners but his boss ended the partnership in the summer. Sheehan is now a freelance.

The rides have kept coming, though, and yesterday Sheehan won the betfred.com Novices Handicap Chase at Taunton on Copperfacejack for Paul Webber.

He is on 16 winners now and with six months to go there has to be a good chance he will beat last season’s total of 56.

Over at Fakenham, Neil King was smiling from ear to ear following Cubswin’s success.

The trainer bought her for £20,000 out of Roger Charlton’s yard in August, and she looked pretty smart when completing a double for King and jockey Trevor Whelan in the juvenile hurdle.

“I was very lucky to buy her at the Doncaster sales as I thought ® she would have made a lot more,” said King. “Her form was rock solid and although she had only won a four-runner race on her last start, everything behind her has won.

“She works like a very nice horse and will come on for that. She’ll go to Aintree next for a Listed mares’ juvenile hurdle.”

Dizzey Heights was the first leg of the double. The 20-1 shot won the Greene King IPA Handicap Hurdle by two and a half lengths from Hallingham.

Hike

Enjoy Responsibly won his first race for Oliver Sherwood by 15 lengths so will inevitably take a big hike in the weights from the end of next week.

His rider, Harrison Beswick, said of the winner: “He was a very good horse with Henry de Bromhead and I think he has got a little bit left to show.

“Hopefully we can get him back up in the 120s or 130s. He is my dad’s horse and that means a lot as well.”