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Molly Landau and Luke Price snatched national championships when the season’s final meeting took place at Umberleigh in Devon on Saturday.

Landau, 18, rode a double and won the Highflyer Bloodstock novice women riders’ title, while Price, who is based at Ynysbwl in South Wales, saddled four winners and leapt to the head of the Leading Owner Championship, taking his score to 15 and retaining a title he won last year. Adam Signy, who led before the final day, finished runner-up

Oxfordshire-based Amber Jackson-Fennell had led the novice women riders’ championship since February and headed to Umberleigh leading Landau by 12 wins to 11 – and with two additional placings to her name – but the challenger drew level with victory on Too Many Diamonds in the first race and made it a double with victory in the mixed open race on Capt Mc (pictured above in Luke Price’s colours). Jackson-Fennell had two rides at the meeting, but both horses were pulled up.

Landau, 18, had been working for Chris and Jenny Gordon near Winchester during the season, but recently returned to a summer job with Kingsclere trainer Andrew Balding. She said: “Amber is a very good rider and we had such a good competition through the season. She was obviously disappointed, as I would have been, but we’ve become friends. Hopefully one day we will be battling for the [senior] ladies’ championship.

“The two winners on Saturday was my first double. That was one of my season’s highlights, and the other would be riding five winners on The Gallantway [trained by Jenny Gordon].”

Landau also paid credit to the Torrington Farmers’ efforts to make the ground safe, saying: “The ground was surprisingly good – the machine [Agri-vator] they used made a big difference.”

Full report from Umberleigh published in Go Pointing later this week