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Josh Newman’s winner-producing spell continued at Wincanton this afternoon when he rode a 20/1 winner on Our Dylan.

The ten-year-old, who is trained by Newman’s wife Kayley Woollacott, scored by half a length in an amateur riders’ hurdle, continuing a run of success for the rider who at the weekend closed the gap between himself and James King in the national men’s championship. While King rode a single winner at Ston Easton, Newman added three more victories at two meetings taking his score to 25, two behind the reigning title-holder.

Our Dylan (pictured above, nearest camera) is a horse Newman knows well, for he trained and rode him in the 2022/23 point-to-point season when his best finish was a runner-up spot at Upcott Cross. He subsequently joined Woollacott’s stable and has since won six hurdle races under rules.

While Newman’s hopes of a first champion riders’ title gained a fillip at the weekend his chances of retaining the championship for trainers with more than 15 horses in their stable took a knock when Gina Andrews sent out five winners, taking her score for the season to 29, seven more than Somerset-based Newman who had to content himself with two victories.