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The last meeting of the North West season – the Knutsford Races Club – took place at Tabley on a bright sunny afternoon, and the highlights of the day were riding doubles for Huw Edwards and Jack Andrews.

Huw Edwards is having a brilliant season for a novice rider and took his tally to 13 on Duke Arcadio (pictured) in the featured Lord Daresbury North West Area Final and Rules of War in the Restricted.

Four went to post in the Lord Daresbury, and Duke Arcadio made most of the running, staying on well to beat Garde Ville by one-and-a-half lengths. Owners Carly and Chris Sage were elated with the gelding’s performance, as he had pulled up at Heslaker a fortnight previously but was back to his best here.

In the Restricted, Rules of War got the better of Jack Andrews on Pelegrine Falcon before three out, but Henry Crow on the Eyton Maiden winner Love Around made up relentless ground and jumped the second-last in a marginal lead. However, the Caroline Robinson-trained gelding stayed on better and won by a length.

Jack Andrews secured his double via An Scairp in the two-and-a-half-mile Mixed Open and Teeton Surprise in the concluding Maiden.

The Hannah Mahon-trained An Scairp, who seems well suited to this shorter trip, had a relatively easy task and won by three-and-a-half lengths.

In the concluding Maiden for six-year-olds-and-over, Huw Edwards made the running on his father’s Catwalk Frank but Andrews came with a good late run to lead at the second-last and stay on strongly to win by two-and-a-half lengths. The winner is a late-developing six-year-old, who was bred by Joan Tice who sadly passed away less than a month ago. Trainer Stuart Morris said that the Executors would be selling all her horses and he would love to find somebody to buy the gelding to stay in the yard.

The opening Veterans’ Race was for horses that had not won for the past two seasons. Paddy Berkins rode his first winner in his third season on Vaillant Creek, owned and trained by his partner Abbie Myers. The 23-year-old jockey works for Martin Keighley.

The two-and-a-half-mile Maiden for younger horses attracted five four-year-olds, and the unraced Lubeat Foras, ridden by Jack Teal, took it up before three out and won by four-and-a-half lengths. Trainer Peter Fahey paid £35,000 for the gelding at last year’s Land Rover sales and hopes to make a decent profit at the forthcoming sales at either Doncaster or Cheltenham.

There was a novel Conditions Race for horses trained by Keepers who had less than three winners this season. Izzie Marshall made most of the running on Cloudy Joker, the 11-year-old going clear in the straight to win by eight lengths from Fair Exchange, giving trainer Max Comley his third winner of the season. The horse, who had been off for a couple of years, had run well on his return earlier this month, when beaten by Chu Chu Percy at Cold Harbour in a Ladies’ Open.